Integrate Wave with Mailgun

Mailgun is a web service that allows you to send, receive, and track email through RESTful API. It is an email service provider which helps you to design the email templates. It takes care of the delivery too. It provides you with an excellent web interface, so you can customize your website’s form to send rich HTML email. Mailgun also provides tracking for all emails that are sent out through its platform. You can use Mailgun in any programming language that supports HTTP requests. When using Mailgun, your data is fully encrypted at rest and in transit, so you can send emails without worrying about customers’ information being compromised.

Wave is a real-time messaging platform. Wave apps are written in JavaScript and designed to be flexible and fast. It allows users to create applications like dashboards, discussions, surveys, notifications, etc. Wave apps are hosted online and work across the web, desktop, or mobile devices; you can also download them as standalone apps for iOS or Android.

We chose to implement Wave and Mailgun because we wanted to be able to send rich formatted HTML emails to our customers easily using our own platform. We also chose to use Wave because we wanted to be able to send notifications across our entire platform; not just our website but also our mobile app.

To integrate Wave and Mailgun, you need to fplow these steps:

• Set up Mailgun account
• Create an API Key for Mailgun
• Authorize Mailgun in Wave
• Use Mailgun API in Wave App

• Set up Mailgun account

Register yourself on www.mailgun.com. Once logged in, you will be presented with the dashboard page. Click on the ‘Sign up for free’ link on the top right corner of the page to continue. To complete registration, fill in your business name, domain name and select ‘No Billing Info Required’ from the drop-down menu under ‘Pricing Plan’. Enter your contact information and click on ‘Create Free Account’ button to finish registration.

• Create an API Key for Mailgun

After you have created an account for your business name, Mailgun will provide you with a ‘API Key’, which is a key that resembles a string of alphanumeric characters. This key is used by your application to establish a secure connection between your application and Mailgun servers. If you want to add more keys for other users in your organization, then go to ‘My Account’ from the top menu bar and select ‘Manage Keys’ option from the drop-down menu on the left side of the screen. In the ‘Manage Keys’ screen shown below, add more keys for corresponding username and click on ‘Add Key’ button once done.

• Authorize Mailgun in Wave

Now that we have created an API key for our Mailgun account, we need to authorize Wave to use this key when sending emails through Mailgun server. To do this, click on ‘Login’ link from the top right corner of the webpage and sign into your Wave account. Once logged in, go to the ‘Apps’ section from the top menu bar and select ‘Add an App’ option from the drop-down menu on the left side of the screen. Fill in your app name (in this case we chose ‘Mailgun’), enter your app description and click on ‘Create App’ button at the bottom of the page to finish creating your app. Once created, click on ‘View App’ link from the left side menu of the screen and then add a new app key by clicking on add key button under ‘App Settings’ section of “App Key” tab shown below. Copy the key shown in the screenshot below and paste it into your code later when we integrate Wave and Mailgun in steps 5 and 6 below:

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