A Lua library for sending emails and interacting with the Mailgun API. Compatible with OpenResty via Lapis HTTP API, or any other Lua script via LuaSocket.

At the moment this library only implements a subset of the API. If there's an missing API method feel free to open an issue.

local Mailgun = require("mailgun").Mailgun

local m = Mailgun({
  domain = "leafo.net",
  api_key = "api:key-blah-blah-blahblah"
})

m:send_email({
  to = "[email protected]",
  subject = "Important message here",
  html = true,
  body = [[
    <h1>Hello world</h1>
    <p>Here is my email to you.</p>
    <hr />
    <p>
      <a href="%unsubscribe_url%">Unsubscribe</a>
    </p>
  ]]
})

luarocks install mailgun

The Mailgun constructor can be used to create a new client to Mailgun. It's found in the mailgun module.

local Mailgun = require("mailgun").Mailgun

local m = Mailgun({
  domain = "leafo.net",
  api_key = "api:key-blah-blah-blahblah"
})

The following options are valid:

• domain - the domain to use for API requests (required)
• api_key - the API key to authenticate requests (required)
• webhook_signing_key - key used for webhook signature verification, defaults to api key without username (optional)
• default_sender - the sender to use for send_email when a sender is not provided (optional)
• http - set the HTTP client (optional)

The value of default_sender has a default created from the domain like this: {domain} <postmaster@{domain}>.

If a HTTP client is not specified, this library will pick lapis.nginx.http when inside of Nginx (OpenResty), otherwise it will fall back on ssl.https (LuaSocket & LuaSec)

The client can be changed by providing an http option to the constructor. If a string is passed, it will be required as a module name. For example, you can use lua-http by passing in http = "http.compat.socket"

Alternatively, a function can be passed in. The function will be called once and the return value will be used as the http module. (It should be a table with a request function that works like LuaSocket)

The following are required options:

• to - the recipient(s) of the email. Pass an array table to send to multiple recipients
• subject - the subject line of the email
• body - the body of the email

Optional fields:

• from - the sender of the email (default: {domain} <postmaster@{domain}>)
• html - set to true to send email as HTML (default false)
• domain - use a different domain than the default
• cc - recipients to cc to, same format as to
• bcc - recipients to bcc to, same format as to
• track_opens - track the open rate fo the email (default false)
• tags - an array table of tags to apply to message
• vars - table of recipient specific variables where the key is the recipient and value is a table of vars
• headers - a table of additional headers to provide
• campaign - the campaign id of the campaign the email is part of (see get_or_create_campaign_id)
• v:{NAME} - add any number of user variables with the name {NAME}, ie. v:user_id

Using recipient variables you can bulk send many emails in a single API call. You can parameterize your email address with different variables for each recipient:

local vars = {
  ["[email protected]"] = {
    username = "L.E.A.F.",
    profile_url = "http://example.com/leafo",
  },
  ["[email protected]"] = {
    username = "Adumb",
    profile_url = "http://example.com/adam",
  }
}

mailgun:send_email({
  to = {"[email protected]", "[email protected]"},
  vars = vars,
  subject = "Hey check it out!",
  body = [[
    Hello %recipient.username%,
    We just updated your profile page. Check it out: %recipient.profile_url%
  ]]
})

Pass the Reply-To header:

mailgun:send_email({
  to = "[email protected]",
  subject = "Hey check it out!",
  from = "Postmaster <[email protected]>",
  headers = {
    ["Reply-To"] = "[email protected]"
  },
  body = [[
    Thanks for downloading our game, reply if you have any questions!
  ]]
})

Creates a new campaign named name. Returns the campaign object

Gets all the campaigns that are available

Gets a campaign id for a campaign by name. If it doesn't exist yet a new one is created.

Gets the first page of stored messages (this uses the events API). The paging object includes the urls for fetching subsequent pages.

https://documentation.mailgun.com/api-suppressions.html#unsubscribes

Gets the first page of unsubscribes messages. opts is passed as query string parameters.

https://documentation.mailgun.com/en/latest/api-events.html

Iterates through each event, lazily fetching pages of events as needed. In order to stop processing events before all of them have been traversed use break to exit the loop.

for e in mailgun:each_unsubscribe() do
  print(e.event)
end

Each event is a plain Lua table with the same format provided by the API : https://documentation.mailgun.com/en/latest/api-events.html#event-structure

Uses limit of 300 by default, which will fetch 300 events at a time for each page.

https://documentation.mailgun.com/en/latest/api-events.html

Issues API call to GET /<domain>/events with provided parameters. If you want to iterate over events see each_event.

Iterates through each message (fetching each page as needed)

for unsub in mailgun:each_unsubscribe() do
  print(unsub.address)
end

https://documentation.mailgun.com/api-suppressions.html#bounces

Gets the first page of unsubscribes bounces. opts is passed as query string parameters.

Iterates through each bounce (fetching each page as needed). Similar to get_unsubscribes.

https://documentation.mailgun.com/api-suppressions.html#view-all-complaints

Gets the first page of complaints messages. opts is passed as query string parameters.

Iterates through each complaint (fetching each page as needed). Similar to get_unsubscribes.

Returns a new instance of the API client configured the same way, but with the domain replaced with the provided domain. If you have multiple domains on your account you can use this to switch to them for any of the get_ methods.

Verify signature of a webhook call using the stored API key as described here: https://documentation.mailgun.com/en/latest/user_manual.html#webhooks

Returns true if the signature is validated, otherwise returns nil and an error message.

If any of the arguments aren't provided, an error is thrown.

Look up email using the email validation service described here: https://documentation.mailgun.com/en/latest/api-email-validation.html#email-validation

Returns a Lua object with results of validation

Changelog now available on GitHub releases: https://github.com/leafo/lua-mailgun/releases

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