In Laravel 5, how do I verify a Mailgun email was successfully delivered?

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I’m employing Laravel 5 with Mailgun to dispatch emails. Consider the example below:

MailerService::dispatchEmail('views.alertTemplate', $payload, function($msg) {
  $msg->assignRecipient('[email protected]', 'Alice');
  $msg->assignSubject('Test Alert');
});

How can I capture a status response from Mailgun confirming the email’s delivery?

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Based on my experience with Laravel 5 and Mailgun, it’s important to understand that there’s no built-in synchronous mechanism in Mailgun to confirm email delivery at the moment of dispatch. Instead, what I’ve done is rely on Mailgun’s webhook system to capture delivery events asynchronously. By setting up a dedicated endpoint in my application, I could process incoming notifications that detail whether the email was delivered, encountered a failure, or even bounced. This approach, although requiring additional setup, resulted in a more robust tracking system that accurately reflected Mailgun’s status updates for each sent message.