Mailgun : Cancel queued emails

Question

I am using mailgun API to send emails. By mistake I called a function that queued thousands of emails in Mailgun.

Is there a way to Cancel/Clear the queue?

Answer 1

If I've sent an email to 150 recipients to the mailgun servers and used BatchMessage and setDeliveryTime() to schedule it for the next day at 7 AM, there's currently no way to cancel this message if I decide later, before the set time, to cancel the job.

This could be fixed by getting a return hash value when using finalize() which then could be used with a new function deleteMessageQueue(return hash value) that will cancel the job.

The canceled message still counts the email credits used, of course.

Answer 2

There does not seem to exist an easy way through the API, except contacting Mailgun Support.

On the other hand, I found a handy workaround that might work for your case: add the recipients in the Bounced Recipients temporarily (Suppressions) so when the time comes, email will not be sent and marked as failed/bounced from Mailgun.

When all of the emails you wanted disappeared are marked as bounced, you can remove recipients from bounces list.

Hope this helps

ps: I know it's an old thread but, mistakes are made all the time ;)

Answer 3

rather than Bouncing the address, you can tag your emails and then just unsubscribe the address from the specific tag.