diff --git a/docs/deployment-on-heroku.rst b/docs/deployment-on-heroku.rst
index 998c75b67..f9abfa515 100644
--- a/docs/deployment-on-heroku.rst
+++ b/docs/deployment-on-heroku.rst
@@ -26,10 +26,6 @@ Run these commands to deploy the project to Heroku:
     heroku config:set DJANGO_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=YOUR_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY_HERE
     heroku config:set DJANGO_AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME=YOUR_AWS_S3_BUCKET_NAME_HERE
 
-    heroku config:set DJANGO_MAILGUN_SERVER_NAME=YOUR_MALGUN_SERVER
-    heroku config:set DJANGO_MAILGUN_API_KEY=YOUR_MAILGUN_API_KEY
-    heroku config:set MAILGUN_SENDER_DOMAIN=YOUR_MAILGUN_SENDER_DOMAIN
-
     heroku config:set PYTHONHASHSEED=random
     heroku config:set DJANGO_ADMIN_URL=\^somelocation/
 
diff --git a/docs/deployment-on-pythonanywhere.rst b/docs/deployment-on-pythonanywhere.rst
index cb23750c5..995da7b03 100644
--- a/docs/deployment-on-pythonanywhere.rst
+++ b/docs/deployment-on-pythonanywhere.rst
@@ -68,9 +68,8 @@ Add these exports
     export DJANGO_SECRET_KEY='<secret key goes here>'
     export DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS='<www.your-domain.com>'
     export DJANGO_ADMIN_URL='<not admin/>'
-    export DJANGO_MAILGUN_API_KEY='<mailgun key>'
-    export DJANGO_MAILGUN_SERVER_NAME='<mailgun server name>'
-    export MAILGUN_SENDER_DOMAIN='<mailgun sender domain (e.g. mg.yourdomain.com)>'
+    export MAILGUN_API_KEY='<mailgun key>'
+    export MAILGUN_DOMAIN='<mailgun sender domain (e.g. mg.yourdomain.com)>'
     export DJANGO_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
     export DJANGO_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
     export DJANGO_AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME=
@@ -139,9 +138,8 @@ Click through to the **WSGI configuration file** link (near the top) and edit th
     os.environ['DJANGO_SECRET_KEY'] = '<as above>'
     os.environ['DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS'] = '<as above>'
     os.environ['DJANGO_ADMIN_URL'] = '<as above>'
-    os.environ['DJANGO_MAILGUN_API_KEY'] = '<as above>'
-    os.environ['DJANGO_MAILGUN_SERVER_NAME'] = '<as above>'
-    os.environ['MAILGUN_SENDER_DOMAIN'] = '<as above>'
+    os.environ['MAILGUN_API_KEY'] = '<as above>'
+    os.environ['MAILGUN_DOMAIN'] = '<as above>'
     os.environ['DJANGO_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'] = ''
     os.environ['DJANGO_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'] = ''
     os.environ['DJANGO_AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME'] = ''
diff --git a/docs/settings.rst b/docs/settings.rst
index 20bf9e5e1..828b5de4b 100644
--- a/docs/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/settings.rst
@@ -47,9 +47,8 @@ DJANGO_AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME          AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME     n/a
 DJANGO_SENTRY_DSN                       SENTRY_DSN                  n/a                                            raises error
 DJANGO_SENTRY_CLIENT                    SENTRY_CLIENT               n/a                                            raven.contrib.django.raven_compat.DjangoClient
 DJANGO_SENTRY_LOG_LEVEL                 SENTRY_LOG_LEVEL            n/a                                            logging.INFO
-DJANGO_MAILGUN_API_KEY                  MAILGUN_ACCESS_KEY          n/a                                            raises error
-DJANGO_MAILGUN_SERVER_NAME              MAILGUN_SERVER_NAME         n/a                                            raises error
-MAILGUN_SENDER_DOMAIN                   MAILGUN_SENDER_DOMAIN       n/a                                            raises error
+MAILGUN_API_KEY                         MAILGUN_ACCESS_KEY          n/a                                            raises error
+MAILGUN_DOMAIN                          MAILGUN_SENDER_DOMAIN       n/a                                            raises error
 NEW_RELIC_APP_NAME                      NEW_RELIC_APP_NAME          n/a                                            raises error
 NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY                   NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY       n/a                                            raises error
 DJANGO_OPBEAT_APP_ID                    OPBEAT['APP_ID']            n/a                                            raises error
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/config/settings/production.py b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/config/settings/production.py
index 9947fc052..09cd8ed9f 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/config/settings/production.py
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/config/settings/production.py
@@ -152,8 +152,8 @@ SERVER_EMAIL = env('DJANGO_SERVER_EMAIL', default=DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL)
 # Anymail with Mailgun
 INSTALLED_APPS += ['anymail', ]
 ANYMAIL = {
-    'MAILGUN_API_KEY': env('DJANGO_MAILGUN_API_KEY'),
-    'MAILGUN_SENDER_DOMAIN': env('MAILGUN_SENDER_DOMAIN')
+    'MAILGUN_API_KEY': env('MAILGUN_API_KEY'),
+    'MAILGUN_SENDER_DOMAIN': env('MAILGUN_DOMAIN')
 }
 EMAIL_BACKEND = 'anymail.backends.mailgun.EmailBackend'
 
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/env.example b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/env.example
index 4030af32a..1ea342045 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/env.example
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/env.example
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ DJANGO_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
 DJANGO_AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME=
 
 # Used with email
-DJANGO_MAILGUN_API_KEY=
+MAILGUN_API_KEY=
 DJANGO_SERVER_EMAIL=
-MAILGUN_SENDER_DOMAIN=
+MAILGUN_DOMAIN=
 
 # Security! Better to use DNS for this task, but you can use redirect
 DJANGO_SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT=False