We are happy to announce the launch of Mail Flagger. A Mailgun email tracking and analysis platform for bloggers, developers and entrepreneurs. Monitor your member email engagement without modifications to your Ghost website. Mail Flagger integrates directly with Mailgun via API.
An email here is referring to a message sent by Mailgun. A message can have a single recipient or multiple recipients. For instance a message with multiple recipients like a published post emailed to all members is counted as 1 email.
@srg I gave it a little test last night (around 3am, so forgive me if I have overlooked something simple) but when I added my API key in, it only pulled the sandbox domain in (mailgun default).
Thanks for creating this. I’ve been looking for something like it. I’m going to give it a try for this week’s newsletter.
Separately - does anyone know how to change the sender email in Ghost? Mine seems to default to “Texas Plenty <alex@texasplenty.com>”, while I’d like it to be “Alex <alex@texasplentycom>”.
@srg - Thanks for developing Mail Flagger. I tried using it this morning when I sent out my weekly newsletter, but I didn’t record any opens, even though I know at least one person has opened the email.
In the top left hand corner you have the option to switch domains. Default domain may have not been selected. Your account looks good. Messages and events are being saved.
Fyi: if you want to track other events like opens and clicks make sure domains settings are set to on.
Can you check the events logs on your mailgun account, Sending->Logs menu. Check if there are any Opened or Clicked events? If there aren’t any there is an issue with the mailgun account.
Then go to Mail->Events and check for events. We poll events every hour but if you’re debugging there is a Check button top right hand corner that will check for any events within the last hour immediately.
Tags can override domain settings. However, I haven’t seen any tag issues with newsletters on other ghost sites yet.
Mailgun:
opened
The email recipient opened the email and enabled image viewing. Open tracking must be enabled in the Mailgun control panel, and the CNAME record must be pointing to mailgun.org.
clicked
The email recipient clicked on a link in the email. Click tracking must be enabled in the Mailgun control panel, and the CNAME record must be pointing to mailgun.org.
Hi @srg - I’m not sure what happened, but I do now see events in my Mailflagger account. My 8/24 newsletter is logged.
I can’t see it on Mailgun since I’m on a Flex account and they only keep logs for 3 days on those accounts. But I checked in with Support and my CNAME is correct and settings for opens/tracking are accurately set.
I’m sending one out tomorrow so let’s see if it gets logged.
