# Does Discourse use Mailgun's validations feature?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-use-mailguns-validations-feature/106580
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [January 15, 2019, 11:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-use-mailguns-validations-feature/106580 "2019-01-15T11:29:20Z")
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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-discourse-use-mailguns-validations-feature/106580/4 "2019-01-15T17:29:26Z")

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I believe that the validations thing allows you to validate email addresses (e.g., to check that a list of addresses you have is valid) before you send mail to them. Discourse doesn’t need to do that, so it’s moot.

The mailgun thing that’s worth knowing about is using the API to get bounce notification, as described [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-bouncing-e-mails/45343).

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