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.
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.
During discovery, Somnio also checks authentication, permissions, admin visibility, queue workers, logging, test coverage, deployment steps, and provider limits. That prevents a quick proof of concept from becoming a fragile production dependency that only one developer understands.
For existing Laravel applications, we also review the current codebase, environment setup, deployment workflow, and data model before adding the new provider. That context helps avoid duplicate records, inconsistent status fields, missing retries, and integrations that work in development but fail under real traffic.
When the integration is part of a larger product, we also identify which work should be automated now and which operational tasks can stay manual until usage proves the need.
That keeps the first release useful without making the provider integration harder to replace, extend, or troubleshoot later.
Data flow
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.
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.
Handoff
The handoff covers DNS records, Mailgun domains, webhook endpoints, queue worker notes, environment variables, and documentation for adding future transactional email templates.