New? Start Here
Navigation Tour
Step 1: Set up your account
Step 2: Bring in your contacts
Step 3: Create customer lists
Step 4: Set up email
Step 5: Set up text messaging
Step 6: Create your first campaign
Your DailyStory Settings
Company Settings
Personal Settings
Personal Settings
Manage Personal Subscriptions
Changing Your Password
Personal Settings Frequently Asked Questions
Account Setup
Setting up Email Marketing
Setting up Text Message Marketing
Integrating With Your Website
Integration Guide
Using Subscription Preferences
Install DailyStory WordPress Plugin
Install DailyStory Beacon in SquareSpace
Install DailyStory Beacon in WiX
Beacon Frequently Asked Questions
Licensing and Usage
Choosing your Plan
Understanding Plan Usage
Free Plan (Freemium) Account Verification
Free Plan (Freemium) Limitations
Upgrading Your Subscription
Purchase Managed Services
Pausing your DailyStory Service
Cancelling your DailyStory Service
Credit Card Declined
Advanced Settings
Build Popular Campaigns
Connect With Other Apps
Automation
Blogging
CRM
Ecommerce
BigCommerce Integration
Flowhub Integration
Instamojo Integration
Konnektive Integration
Lightspeed Integration
Magento Integration
Mindbody Integration
Shopify Integration
Weave Integration
WooCommerce Integration
Square Integration
Arfinn Integration
Loyalty
Point of Sale
Productivity
Text Messaging
Utlity
Work with Contacts
Managing contacts
Segments
Managing Static Segments
Managing Dynamic Segments
DailyStory Segments Guide
Viewing the Contacts in a Segment
Disabling and Enabling Segments
Deleting and Restoring Deleted Segments
Archiving and Restoring Archived Segments
FAQs: Segments
Contacts Feature Guide
Editing contact records
Adding contacts manually using the Create Contact option
Importing contacts using the Import Bulk tool
Adding contacts using automation
Deleting contacts
Exporting contacts
Arranging order of custom contact record fields
Deleting Contacts
Merge duplicate contacts
Making Contacts Inactive
Searching for contacts
Getting started with contacts search
Using direct free text search
Using advanced search
Changing order of custom contact search fields
Filtering your search
Common searches used for segments
Managing custom contact fields
Accessing the custom contact fields
Creating custom contact fields
Sample custom field configuration
Enabling a custom field in search
Editing and arranging custom contact fields
Managing tags
FAQs: Contacts
Test Lead
Work with Campaigns
DailyStory Campaigns Guide
Creating a campaign
Managing a Campaign
Add Contacts to a Campaign
Editing a campaign
Using campaign tracking token
Pausing or Unpausing a campaign
Deleting a campaign
Campaign Archives
Cloning a campaign
FAQs: Campaigns
Inbound Marketing Tools
Landing Pages
Landing Page Guide
Creating or Editing a Landing Page
Using the Page Designer
Adding a Form to a Landing Page
Editing a Landing Page's HTML and CSS
Landing Page Frequently Asked Questions
Popups
Creating Popups
Creating a Popup Using a Canva Image
Configuring a Popup's Basic Settings
Configuring a Popup's Display Options
Configuring a Popup's Layout Options
Popup Frequently Asked Questions
QR Codes
Tracking Links
Tracking Links Guide
Create or Edit a Tracking Link
Test a Tracking Link
Tracking Link Advanced Options
Tracking Link Metrics and Reporting
Measure click performance and track link conversions
Tracking Links Frequently Asked Questions
Web Forms
Web Forms Guide
Create or Edit a Web Form
Design a Web Form
Styling your Web Form
Publishing your Web Form
Web Forms Frequently Asked Questions
Google Ads Conversion Tracking
Magic Forms
Outbound Marketing Tools
Email Marketing
Email Marketing Guide
Create an Email from a Template
Using the Email Designer
Create or Edit an Email
Email Designer Widgets
Preview an Email
Send a Test Email
Manage Senders
Send an Email
Mocking a forwarded or replied to email
Scheduling an Email
Send an Email to a Single Contact
Built-in Email Guardrails
Create an Email Template
Edit an Email Template
Manage Email Revisions
Email Designer Advanced Topics
Email Merge Tags
Edit Email HTML, CSS and AMP
Import and Export Emails
Email Technical Details
Troubleshoot Email Delivery
Bounced Email Guide
How to Warm-Up an IP address
Send AMP Emails
Email Frequently Asked Questions
Email Designer Frequently Asked Questions
Cloning an email
Configuring SPF, DKIM and DMARC
Editing HTML in the Email Designer
SMS Marketing
Send a Text Message Quick Start
DailyStory SMS Marketing Guide
Creating or Editing a Text Message
Sending Text Messages
Sending a Test Text Message
Text Message Replies Report
Understanding Text Messaging Costs
Text Message Sending Guardrails
Text Message Deliverability Score
Sending Individual Text Messages
Replies to Text Messages
Understanding Text Message Delivery Codes
Setting up Keywords for Text Message Replies
Opting out of Text Messages
Text Message Frequently Asked Questions
Copying a Text Message
Purchase Text Message Credits
SMS Links with Restricted Content
Opting into Text Messages
10DLC Registration
Custom SMS URL Shortener
A/B Testing
Personalization
Personalization Guide
Built in Personalization Tokens
Custom Personalization Tokens
Using Conditional Logic with Personalization
Personalization Frequently Asked Questions
Push Notifications
Web Push Notifications
Using Automation
Automation Guide
Design an Automation
Automation Triggers
Automation Actions
Automation Conditions
Automations Dashboard
Exporting and Importing Automations
Automation Frequently Asked Questions
Reporting Tools
Reports and Dashboards Guide
Dashboards
Sent Emails Report
Sent Text Messages Report
Sent Push Notifications Report
Web Activity Report
Tracking Links Report
Popups Report
Who is Visiting Report
Paid Search Summary Report
Email OptOut Report
FAQs: Reports
Other Tools
File Manager
File Manager Guide
Manage files and folders in File Manager
File Manager Frequently Asked Questions
Tasks
ChatGPT Writing Assistant
Event Calendar
Retargeting Pixel
Give Us Feedback
- All Categories
- Connect With Other Apps
- Mailgun Integration
Mailgun Integration
Updated
by Rob Howard
The DailyStory Mailgun integration enables you to use the power of DailyStory's marketing and automation tools with a powerful transactional email platform: Mailgun.
DailyStory sends email for you, but with Mailgun integration you can further control how email is sent and ensure that it is authorized to your domain - all to help deliver your email to your customers.
You can bring your own Mailgun account or you can utilize the built-in integration provided by DailyStory.
Setup your own Mailgun Integration
There are several steps required to configure DailyStory and Mailgun integration. These steps are detailed below.
- Create a Mailgun Account
Visit Mailgun and create an account. There are a few technical steps (see Setting up your Mailgun DNS below) that will require someone from your IT team to help with.
The good news, it's free to send up to 5,000 emails per-month!
- Mailgun API Keys
After creating your account and setting everything up, you are ready to connect Mailgun to DailyStory.
Login to Mailgun and visit your Account > Security page. Copy your Private API Key. You do not need the Public Validation Key.

Next, configure DailyStory to use the API keys for your Mailgun account.
- Configure DailyStory
Log into your DailyStory account and navigate to Admin > Integrations and select the Mailgun integration:

Enter the domain you configured as part of your Mailgun setup, such as mg.example.com
.
Next, enter the API Key and click Save.
DailyStory will attempt to send a test email to your email address to verify the integration is properly setup.
Setting up your Mailgun DNS entries
Part of setting up your own Mailgun account requires you to ADD several new entries to your DNS record. This is done so that when email is sent on your behalf email recipients can validate that the email comes from you.
These records include SPF and DKIM records that allow for email servers to validate the sending domain and the from address. You may also need to optionally configure DMARC if it is in use already.
If we have setup your Mailgun account you will receive a file from us called "Mailgun setup - [Account Name].xlsx". The content of which look like this:

You will need to add these records to your DNS record for your domain. Typically this is where you purchased your domain, such as GoDaddy. For example, here are how several records look in a customer DNS for GoDaddy:

One you add the TXT and MX files you can log out of your account. We will get a notification at DailyStory that your Mailgun integration has been setup and we finalize the integration.
Frequently Asked Questions
Below are some frequently asked questions for Mailgun setup
Can I send from multiple domains?
Yes, if you are sending from multiple domains, enter each of those domains separated by a semi-colon when entering the Domains in DailiyStory (Step 3 above).
For example, if the following domains were setup with Mailgun you would enter: mg.example1.com;emails.test.org;mg.test.com
. When DailyStory sends your email it will match the sending domain with the correct Domain in Mailgun, e.g. if the email came from hello@emails.test.org
the Mailgun domain used would be emails.test.org
.
hello@test.org
would match to the sending domain emails.test.org
.Do I have to setup Mailgun integration to send email?
No, you can send email without configuring Mailgun. However, emails will be send on your behalf and may get flagged as SPAM.
Do you support SendGrid, Mandrill or other transactional email platforms?
No, currently we only support Mailgun. We plan to offer support for SendGrid in the future.
Troubleshooting
If you received an error when saving your Mailgun credentials it means that something is misconfigured with Mailgun, your domain or API Key, or there is a problem with your email address.
First, we recommend double-checking the domain and API Key to ensure that the values are the same as the values configured in Mailgun. This is the most common problem.
Next, double-check that the email used by DailyStory is a valid and working email address. The email address can be found in Admin > Personal Settings.