I’m looking for a method to have Google emails utilize Mailgun’s SMTP service without relying on email aliases or a cloud VM. Does anyone have a straightforward solution?
Attempting to integrate Google’s email service with Mailgun’s SMTP isn’t as simple as it might initially appear. In my personal experience, trying to configure Google emails to directly use Mailgun led to several authentication issues and policy mismatches. The challenges primarily revolve around Google’s strict security protocols and the inherent limitations in altering how their service handles SMTP relays. What eventually worked better was leveraging Mailgun’s flexible API for sending emails, which avoided many of the complications encountered with a direct SMTP setup.