Receive (not forward) e-mail using Mailgun

Question

I want to use Mailgun to send/receive messages programatically via API.

BUT I need to have also some mailboxes available using Thunderbird or other mail client.

For example I want to have user mailboxes at:

• support@
• sales@
• admin@

And all other e-mails will be for API send/receive.

I can not forward my mail to GMail because I need to reply from the same address ([email protected]).

Please help.

Answer 1

There is a limitation to using the routing feature and that is that if you delegate a domain to be used by Mailgun you cannot use it with an email client. That means that, for example, if you want to route emails to [email protected] and then still use that email address with your favourite email client (be it Thunderbird, Outlook or Gmail) you can't do it. That is because of the way you've configured your MX records (email records in your DNS).

When you use Mailgun's routing functionality you delegate MX records to mailgun, which receives your emails, parses them and routes them according to your preferences.

So how do we solve your problem? What you can do instead is set up your MX record on a subdomain.

Using subdomain.mydomain.com and pointing its MX records to mailgun will allow you to receive and parse emails through Mailgun.

This way you can have:

• [email protected]
• [email protected] etc will be handled by mailgun

while

• [email protected]
• [email protected]

will be handled normally with your email client.

Please do not hesitate in asking more details!