Did This Email Arrive In My Inbox?

Back in August, I asked a question: Did this email arrive in YOUR inbox?

Did This Email Arrive In Your Inbox?

So uhh...hi. I hope you’re not just reading this on my website, through ActivityPub, , or RSS, but also in your email clients. Because here’s the thing. Ideally, this post was sent as a newsletter through my Ghost site. Duhh? Usually, on Magic Pages that happens through Mailgun. Yet, this

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As an experiment, I wired up an entire Mailgun alternative – but missed the important question:

Did This Email Arrive In My Inbox?

Because the answer was...no.

Replies sent to that particular newsletter did not arrive in my inbox. In fact, they just ended up...nowhere.

While I was excited to get email sending working, I completely missed the fact that there was a second side of it: receiving.

I did some initial work to get that working as well, but then September happened – the most successful, but also busiest month for Magic Pages so far.

So, to wrap up the fun experiment of setting up my own email sending agent, I switched everything back to Mailgun here 😂

As a proof of concept, things did, in fact, work. I did send emails. In most cases, the emails arrived in your inboxes. I did miss the fact that I could not receive replies.

Would I recommend anyone looking for a Mailgun alternative to go down this route? Absolutely not.