# How to configure Discourse to receive email from Mailgun?

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**Created:** [January 23, 2025, 7:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-configure-discourse-to-receive-email-from-mailgun/348670 "2025-01-23T19:18:01Z")\
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I already changed my MX records now so to avoid another 24-hour delay, I’m going to persevere with the mail-receiver approach.

> [@pfaffman](#):
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> The mail receiver works on port 25,so treafik does not need to know about it.

This simplifies things very much. In this case, I can more or less just run the sample script without _any_ changes or integration with the traefix/docker-compose stack?

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