Laravel + Mailgun Integration
Send transactional emails, handle webhooks, and manage mailing lists with Mailgun in Laravel.
Why Mailgun
High Deliverability
Industry-leading deliverability rates with smart routing and spam filtering.
Powerful Analytics
Track opens, clicks, bounces, and unsubscribes in real-time.
Transactional + Marketing
Send both transactional emails and marketing campaigns from one API.
Quick Setup
1. Configure .env
MAIL_MAILER=mailgun MAILGUN_DOMAIN=mg.yourdomain.com MAILGUN_SECRET=your-api-key
2. Send Email
Mail::to($user)->send(new OrderShipped($order));
Integration planning
Plan the Laravel Mailgun integration before coding.
Direct answer
A Laravel Mailgun integration is production-ready when transactional messages are queued, authenticated by SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, traceable to users or orders, and connected to bounce, complaint, suppression, and webhook handling. SMTP settings alone are not enough.
Email delivery becomes business-critical once customers depend on account notices, invoices, password resets, or order updates. A durable Mailgun integration needs more than SMTP settings: it needs domain authentication, queueing, failure handling, bounce management, and enough logging for support teams to answer delivery questions.
Data and events model
We connect Laravel mailables, queues, templates, customer records, and Mailgun events so sends, opens, bounces, complaints, and suppressions can be traced back to the right user or workflow.
Failure states
Plan for failed DNS verification, rejected messages, bounced addresses, complaints, suppressions, queued-job failures, provider downtime, and templates that need a safe fallback.
Admin and support visibility
Support needs message logs by user, order, invoice, or account event, plus bounce and suppression status so they can explain why an email was not delivered.
Provider setup
Setup includes verified sending domains, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, API keys, webhook signing, inbound or event routes when needed, queue workers, and environment variables.
Operations
Email operations need SPF, DKIM, DMARC alignment, webhook verification, retry rules, and safe fallbacks when a provider rejects a message. Those details are planned before launch.
Example production scope
Order and account email delivery with queued Laravel mailables, Mailgun event webhooks, bounce handling, suppression checks, and an admin delivery log.
Handoff
The handoff covers DNS records, Mailgun domains, webhook endpoints, queue worker notes, environment variables, and documentation for adding future transactional email templates.