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I use mailgun to send automated alerts from our home network backup processes and security cameras. When sending to a Gmail account, there is sometimes up to a
by kellymartini 10y ago
I use mailgun to send automated alerts from our home network backup processes and security cameras.
When sending to a Gmail account, there is sometimes up to a 2 hour delay before the mail arrives, though usually it's within a few minutes.
Mail sent to a Fastmail account always arrives almost immediately.
MG does some kind of prioritizing based on the domain when using their free account. It's obviously an anti-spam measure. They might also have some kind of "warm-up" feature where if you send enough email with a valid FROM and TO address then they queue it faster, IDK. Not sure if they do the same thing with their paid plans.
- leesalminen 10y agoMy understanding is that they rate limit the number of emails sent to a domain per IP address, per hour. Email service providers assume that if you send "too many" emails to their domain per hour, it's "spam". The same thing happens with my dedicated IPs (sending ~500k/mo). Yahoo is frequently rate limited. Gmail is less common, though we have years of good reputation on those IPs.
- ktta 10y ago500k/mo ?! Do you mind me asking if this is for a company or personal use? Although I don't have any idea why even a few person compnay would have to send those many emails, your use of 'my' makes me wonder.
- leesalminen 10y agoOur product is a SaaS for pet service businesses (grooming, dog daycare/boarding, training). The app has 34 distinct automated email types that are sent at various points. It's a lot of email :).