I’m building an application that lets users sign up for updates, and I’ve configured Mailgun for email processing. While the setup works fine overall, I’m facing an issue adding a new subscriber using Mailgun’s list member function without first saving the email to my database. I can’t determine how to pass the email address directly from the signup form to the add_list_member operation. Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Based on my experience managing similar setups in Rails, a method that worked well to integrate Mailgun and preserve system integrity was to decouple the email registration and Mailgun list addition tasks. Instead of requiring the email to be stored just for Mailgun to process it, I first saved the email in the database and then triggered an asynchronous job that calls Mailgun’s API. This approach reduces the chance of failure during the sign-up process and ensures you always have a reliable record of user emails. Incorporating proper error handling in the background job further solidifies the integration.