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SleekView Kanban for Mailgun

SleekView Kanban pulls Mailgun event logs into WordPress, groups every send by its delivery status, and lets ops drag failed and bounced messages into investigation lanes so support teams can resolve email problems without ever leaving the WordPress admin.

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SleekView Kanban board for Mailgun for WordPress

Why Mailgun event logs need a kanban

The Mailgun for WordPress plugin pipes transactional email through the Mailgun API and writes an event log row for every send with a delivery_status, a recipient, a subject, a message_id, and the timestamps for accepted, delivered, opened, complained, and failed. For a small site this log is a quiet audit trail, but the moment a SaaS or membership site relies on transactional email for password resets, receipts, and onboarding flows, that flat log table becomes the most important operational view in the admin.

SleekView Kanban reads the same wp_mailgun_events mirror rows and groups them by delivery_status so accepted, delivered, failed, bounced, and complained each become a dedicated lane with a live row count. Each card surfaces the recipient email, the subject line, the original send timestamp, and the SMTP response code on the failed events, which is exactly what an on-call engineer wants on a Monday morning when receipt emails are bouncing.

Dragging a failed card into an Investigating lane writes a status flag back to the event row, and dragging it into Resolved closes the loop. Cards in Delivered stay read-only as a historical audit. Bulk drag a batch of bounced recipients into a Suppressed lane and SleekView writes the suppression flag back to the Mailgun API in one round-trip so future sends skip those addresses.

Workflow

From Mailgun log to triage kanban in four steps

1

Point SleekView at Mailgun events

Install SleekView, pick the Mailgun for WordPress plugin from the data source picker, and SleekView auto-detects the event log table the Mailgun plugin maintains. Every field including recipient, subject, status, SMTP code, and timestamp becomes available as a column without writing any SQL or copying field names by hand.
2

Group by delivery_status as the lane column

Open the view config and pick delivery_status as the group-by column. SleekView reads every state Mailgun emits including accepted, delivered, failed, bounced, complained, and unsubscribed, then renders each one as a kanban lane with a live row count for the last 24 hours of sends ready for triage.
3

Pick triage fields for each card

Decide what shows on the front of each card. Most ops teams pick recipient, subject, send time, and the SMTP response on failed events. Hidden fields like the full Mailgun message_id and the original send domain stay accessible in the card detail panel so the front of each card stays focused on triage signal.
4

Enable drag-and-drop suppression

Flip the write toggle so dragging a bounced event into a Suppressed lane calls the Mailgun API to add the recipient to the account-level suppression list. Permissions follow WordPress capabilities, so only admins and ops engineers can suppress addresses while support agents can move events between investigation lanes.

Sample board

Sample Mailgun event triage board

A live SleekView Kanban grouping Mailgun transactional events by delivery status, with card fronts showing recipient, subject, send time, and SMTP response on failed sends.
Accepted
1248
Password reset for jordan@example.com
subject: Reset your password, 14s ago
Receipt for order 4012 to sam@acme.co
subject: Your order receipt, 22s ago
Welcome email to alex@studio.io
subject: Welcome to your account, 31s ago
Delivered
9472
Invoice 8821 to billing@bigcorp.com
subject: Invoice 8821 attached, 2m ago
Magic link to lee@studio.dev
subject: Your sign-in link, 3m ago
Comment digest to writer@blog.io
subject: 4 new comments today, 5m ago
Failed
18
Receipt to taylor@oldmail.invalid
smtp 550 mailbox unavailable
Reset to robin@badhost.test
smtp 421 try again later
Welcome to ash@former.io
smtp 552 message size limit
Bounced
47
Invoice to finance@vanished.co
permanent bounce, hard 550 5.1.1
Receipt to no-such-user@gmail.com
permanent bounce, hard 550 5.1.1
Reset to user@quota-full.io
soft bounce, transient 552

Comparison

Mailgun event log vs SleekView Kanban

Mailgun event log table

  • Flat event log makes every failure look the same in a long chronological list
  • Filter by status needs constant clicks instead of always-visible lane counts at a glance
  • Suppressing a recipient means leaving WordPress and opening the Mailgun SaaS dashboard
  • No way to mark events as investigating or resolved so triage state lives in tickets
  • Bulk suppressing five bounced addresses needs five separate Mailgun dashboard actions

SleekView Kanban

  • Reads the Mailgun event mirror so every send is visible without leaving WordPress
  • Lanes for accepted, delivered, failed, bounced, and complained
  • Drag a bounced event into Suppressed and SleekView calls the Mailgun API for you
  • Cards show recipient, subject, send time, and SMTP response on failed sends
  • Investigating and Resolved lanes give support a triage state that survives plugin updates

Features

What SleekView Kanban gives you for Mailgun for WordPress

Failure triage in one view

The Failed and Bounced lanes show the events that need action right now, with SMTP response codes on the front of each card. Drag the card into Investigating to assign it, into Suppressed to block the recipient, or into Resolved once the underlying issue is fixed. Triage state lives on the event itself, not in a separate ticket.

API-backed suppression on drop

Dropping a bounced or complained card into the Suppressed lane calls the Mailgun API to add the recipient to the account suppression list so future sends to that address never leave WordPress. The suppression survives plugin updates and is visible to anyone with Mailgun dashboard access for audit.

Role-aware triage actions

Support agents can move events between Investigating and Resolved but cannot suppress addresses. Ops engineers can drop into Suppressed and trigger the Mailgun API call. The same WordPress capability model that protects every other admin action protects every drag on the kanban triage board.

Audience

Where ops teams use the Mailgun kanban

Password reset deliverability

Resets are the most user-visible transactional email a SaaS sends. The kanban surfaces failed and bounced resets in real time so on-call engineers spot the spike before support tickets arrive and can suppress dead addresses or roll back the offending change.

Receipt and invoice tracking

Finance teams need every receipt to land in the customer inbox. The kanban groups receipts by delivery state and the Failed lane becomes the day-one triage queue when an MX record changes or a customer mailbox starts bouncing.

Domain reputation hygiene

Spam complaints and persistent bounces erode sender reputation. Bulk drag a week of complained events into Suppressed and SleekView calls the Mailgun API for every address so future sends skip them and the domain reputation stops degrading.

The bigger picture

Why Mailgun events read better as a kanban

Transactional email logs are the kind of data that look fine in a list right up until they do not. For most sites, weeks pass where every send is delivered and the log is silent. Then a DNS change, a customer mailbox upgrade, or a third-party MX rotation triggers a wave of failures and bounces that all need triage right now.

A flat log makes that wave hard to read because every row looks the same and the only differentiator is a small status pill or a delivery code. A kanban turns the wave into a lane. Suddenly the Failed column has forty cards in it instead of two, and the on-call engineer reads that signal in a single glance from across the room.

The Bounced column starts filling with the same recipient domain and the ops team spots the pattern. Investigating and Resolved lanes give the triage workflow a real surface that survives plugin updates and shift handoffs, instead of living in a chat thread or a ticket system. The kanban also lowers the barrier to suppressing a bad address.

A drag into Suppressed is the same gesture for one address as for fifty, so domain reputation hygiene becomes a daily habit rather than a quarterly project.

Questions

Common questions about SleekView Kanban for Mailgun for WordPress

Both. Triage state like Investigating and Resolved writes to the local event mirror table. The Suppressed lane calls the Mailgun API to add the recipient to the account suppression list so future sends skip that address everywhere, not just inside WordPress. Same drag, two consistent writes, one to the mirror and one to Mailgun.

 

Use delivery_status for the primary lanes since it carries the exact values Mailgun emits including accepted, delivered, failed, bounced, complained, and unsubscribed. For more granular triage, compose the group-by from delivery_status plus a custom triage_state column so the same board shows both the Mailgun-side state and the in-house workflow state.

 

Each lane paginates and only loads card data for the slice currently in view. Delivered comfortably holds millions of historical rows because the lane lazy-loads as you scroll. The Failed and Bounced lanes that actually need real-time accuracy stay snappy because they only carry the small slice of events from the recent window.

 

Yes. Set permissions so the support role can drop into Investigating and Resolved but not into Suppressed. The Suppressed lane becomes a non-drop target for that role and the card snaps back. Ops engineers and admins keep full access to all lanes, so suppression stays a privileged action.

 

The local mirror flag rolls back and the card returns to its previous lane with an inline error toast showing the API response. SleekView treats the API write as the source of truth so the kanban never drifts from the Mailgun account state. The failure is logged for audit and can be retried with another drag.

 

Yes. Add a domain filter to the kanban view so the board scopes to only sends from the chosen domain. Save the filtered URL for each domain and the team responsible for that domain gets a focused triage board. The same Mailgun account drives multiple boards without any data duplication.

 

It replaces it for the day-to-day triage work that ops teams actually do, like spotting failed receipts and suppressing bounced addresses. The Mailgun dashboard still has account-level analytics, domain reputation graphs, and webhook configuration that live outside the kanban scope. Most teams check the dashboard weekly and live in the kanban daily.

 

No. The kanban only queries the event mirror table when the board is open, and even then it only pulls the lanes currently in view. There is no background polling, no extra cron, and no admin-init queries. Sites running the Mailgun for WordPress plugin already write the mirror table, so SleekView simply reads from rows that exist.

 

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