Mailgun to Gmail and reply

Question

I have a website example.com and I want my customers to be able to send emails to support@example.com. I am used to using Gmail so I would like to receive all emails to my gmail account: me@gmail.com and reply to my customers using the Gmail interface.

I am trying to use Mailgun and Amazon's Route 53 to make this all happen. In one direction I would like to make this work:

some_customer@yahoo.com --> support@example.com --> Mailgun --> (transforms the sender address "some_customer@yahoo.com" to some "middleman@mailgun.com") --> me@gmail.com

In other words, when the customer sends support@example.com an email, it reaches my Gmail inbox.

In the other direction, when I am replying to my customer using my Gmail web interface that I am familiar with:

me@gmail.com --> middleman@mailgun.com --> Mailgun --> (transforms the sender address "me@gmail.com" to "support@example.com") --> some_customer@yahoo.com

In the second step, since I want to reply to the customer, I just reply to middleman@mailgun.com and Mailgun will simply change my gmail address to support@example.com before forwarding it to my customer.

Can this be done? If so, how?

Thanks,

Answer 1

A better way is to just let Gmail do the receiving by putting MX records in Route53 that points to Google's mail servers.

For the sending, put in a TXT record that lets both Gmail and Mailgun send out emails on behalf of your domain:

"v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org ~all"

Also you may want to enable DKIM for signing your emails.