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Mailgun

Mailgun receives mail for 39 of 9,971 popular domains we measured in November 2026. Below: the records it needs and how its customers actually set them.

0.4%of measured domains39 of 9,971
0.5%of domains that receive mail
33use it as primary MX
35.9%customers enforce DMARCp=quarantine or p=reject

Correct setup for Mailgun

MX records

HostPriority
mxa.mailgun.org10
mxb.mailgun.org10

Domains on Mailgun's EU region use mxa.eu.mailgun.org and mxb.eu.mailgun.org.

SPF

Add include:mailgun.org to the domain's single SPF record, for example:

v=spf1 include:mailgun.org -all

26 of 39 Mailgun customers in our sample (66.7%) have this include in their SPF record.

DKIM

TXT record at <selector>._domainkey.<domain>; the selector and key are shown in the Mailgun dashboard for the domain.

DMARC

Publish a TXT record at _dmarc.<domain> once SPF and DKIM pass for all mail you send, start with p=none and a reporting address, then move to p=quarantine or p=reject:

v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:dmarc-reports@<domain>

Provider site: https://www.mailgun.com/

How Mailgun customers configure email security

39 customer domains in the sample (accent bars) compared with all 9,971 measured domains (grey bars).

SPF record 89.7%
all measured 75.7%
SPF -all (hard fail) 30.8%
all measured 37.7%
DMARC record 61.5%
all measured 68.0%
DMARC enforced 35.9%
all measured 50.9%
DMARC p=reject 28.2%
all measured 31.4%
MTA-STS 0.0%
all measured 3.0%

Well-known domains using Mailgun

The highest-ranked domains in the sample whose MX records point to Mailgun.

substack.compushy.iocootlogix.comusercentrics.eumilfporn.tvjable.tvnjavtv.comdogdrip.netay.deliveryadsmoloco.comr7ops.combttrack.com

Check one yourself:

MX host names seen

Customer-specific parts replaced by <domain> and digits by <n>.

MX host patternDomains
mxa.mailgun.org37
mxb.mailgun.org36
mxb.eu.mailgun.org2
mxa.eu.mailgun.org2

Source: our own scan of November 2026 (2026-11-11), 9,971 of the top 10,000 domains of the Tranco list Y895G that answered in DNS. Method and data.