Mailgun: ESP for Developers
Based in San Francisco, Mailgun is an Email Service Provider (ESP) for developers which allow them to target on innovation elsewhere. The main focus is to make developers’ lives easier and allow them...
View ArticleWe Are Acquiring Mailgun
I am super excited to announce to the world that we’re acquiring Mailgun. Mailgun is a developer-focused mail-as-a-service company based in San Francisco. They help developers integrate email sending...
View ArticleRackspace Weekly Digest: Friday, September 7
Summer is grinding to a close – unofficially, anyway — and another week is in the books. But here at Rackspace we’re running full steam ahead. Despite the Labor Day holiday, this week was chock full of...
View ArticleEmail Deliverability Guide Part 1: Overview, Reputation And Hosting
This Email Deliverability Best Practices Guide was originally published by the team at Mailgun. Mailgun is an easy-to-use, API-based email deliverability tool for developers which Rackspace acquired in...
View ArticleEmail Deliverability Guide Part 2: IP Addresses, DNS And Authentication
This Email Deliverability Best Practices Guide was originally published by the team at Mailgun. Mailgun is an easy-to-use, API-based email deliverability tool for developers which Rackspace acquired in...
View ArticleEmail Deliverability Guide Part 3: Managing Lists, Handling Bounces And Spam
This Email Deliverability Best Practices Guide was originally published by the team at Mailgun. Mailgun is an easy-to-use, API-based email deliverability tool for developers which Rackspace acquired in...
View ArticleEmail Deliverability Guide Part 4: Unsubscribe Handling, Receipt Engagement...
This Email Deliverability Best Practices Guide was originally published by the team at Mailgun. Mailgun is an easy-to-use, API-based email deliverability tool for developers which Rackspace acquired in...
View ArticleEmail Delivery Guide Part 5: Writing Good Emails And Avoiding Spam Filters
This Email Deliverability Best Practices Guide was originally published by the team at Mailgun. Mailgun is an easy-to-use, API-based email deliverability tool for developers which Rackspace acquired in...
View ArticleHow To Use The Objective-C Mailgun SDK
One of my favorite services here at Rackspace is Mailgun, a set of APIs that allow you to send email and manage mailing lists via a REST API. Coming back from a recent trip to San Antonio I decided...
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Get Mailgun Now, Directly Through The Cloud Control Panel
You can now use Mailgun, the email automation engine we acquired in August, directly within the Cloud Control Panel. That’s right. It’s no fuss, no muss. There’s no separate account to sign up for or...
View ArticleCut The Red Tape; Build Your Startup On Open Source Principles
I knew that if I ever started a company, I would build it on some of the principles that drive open source projects. While most companies leverage product roadmaps and rigid structure, open source...
View ArticleThe Human API Helps Mailgun Stay Nimble
One of the key ideas in computer engineering is encapsulation. In short, it is removing the unneeded dependencies between unrelated components of a software program. Dependencies (or references) are...
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Hacking Human Behavior
One of the fundamental pillars of neoclassical economics is rational choice theory. Rational choice theory relies on the assumption that people make rational decisions to maximize personal advantage....
View ArticleAutomating Email With Mailgun [Screencast]
As an app developer, one of the things that I hate having to set up is a reliable way to email users. Setting up your own email server can be a giant pain and the odds are decent your email will end up...
View ArticleHow Mailgun Uses Docker And Contributes Back
There are a lot of good reasons to be excited about containers, a form of operating system-level virtualization with many applications. At Mailgun, we’re excited about containers for four major...
View ArticleGetting The Most Out Of Your Ecommerce Email Programs
If you run an ecommerce site, email is critical to your business. It creates the dialogue between you and your customers and keeps them informed. In most cases, it’s your most direct line of...
View ArticleEmail For Ecommerce: Managing Your Reputation
In this blog series, we walk you through some of the dos and don’ts of email for ecommerce. Last week, we introduced the series. This week we dig into managing your reputation. For most ecommerce...
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Email For Ecommerce: Transactional Email
In this blog series, we walk you through some of the dos and don’ts of email for ecommerce. Last week, we talked about managing your reputation. This week we dig into transactional email like order...
View ArticleEmail For Ecommerce: Marketing Emails
In this blog series, we walk you through some of the dos and don’ts of email for ecommerce. Last week, we talked about transactional email. This week we dig into marketing emails. Email has always been...
View ArticleIncrease Email Engagement With Mailgun Managed Email Service
Regardless of how much due diligence an acquisition is given, both teams are always rolling the dice on how well two different cultures and products will integrate. Rackspace is known for its...
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