# Having only Mailgun integration for newsletter is a major hurdle for self-hosting **URL:** \ **Category:** Self-hosting\ **Created:** [March 13, 2026, 8:15am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/having-only-mailgun-integration-for-newsletter-is-a-major-hurdle-for-self-hosting/62170 "2026-03-13T08:15:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![muratcorlu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/muratcorlu/32/38509_2.png) [@muratcorlu](https://forum.ghost.org/u/muratcorlu)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/having-only-mailgun-integration-for-newsletter-is-a-major-hurdle-for-self-hosting/62170/15 "2026-03-17T19:14:03Z")
Using SMTP for bulk emai is discussed as well. > [@Finally a clone of Mailgun API! (aka you can send newsletters with your SMTP)](https://forum.ghost.org/t/finally-a-clone-of-mailgun-api-aka-you-can-send-newsletters-with-your-smtp/57992/11): > > I checked the code quickly. I tries to send mails to every recipient one-by-one, with the request comes from Ghost. But sending mail with SMTP takes so much time. With a large recipient list, it can’t fit the timeout limit of Ghost (60 seconds, normally Mailgun responds under 1 second). This is a confirmation of why sending bulk mail with SMTP is a bad idea. To achieve this, you need to have a distributed SMTP server, which can send mails concurrently from multiple servers at the same time. And… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.ghost.org/t/having-only-mailgun-integration-for-newsletter-is-a-major-hurdle-for-self-hosting/62170)._