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The honest Mailgun Routes alternative
Mailgun Routes is a filter-expression engine for inbound mail: you write match_recipient/match_header rules that fire forward() and store() actions, and Mailgun POSTs the parsed message to your endpoint as form-encoded fields. MailKite is a routes alternative that drops the rule DSL — point an address or catch-all at a webhook and the message arrives as a single JSON payload with decoded text/html, SPF/DKIM/DMARC results, and signed attachment URLs. Here's a fair comparison, and where I won't overclaim.