diff --git a/apprise/plugins/NotifyMailgun.py b/apprise/plugins/NotifyMailgun.py
index ad0d5f91..b53982f6 100644
--- a/apprise/plugins/NotifyMailgun.py
+++ b/apprise/plugins/NotifyMailgun.py
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@
 #  the email will be transmitted from.  If no email address is specified
 #  then it will also become the 'to' address as well.
 #
-import re
 import requests
 
 from .NotifyBase import NotifyBase
@@ -60,9 +59,6 @@ from ..utils import parse_list
 from ..utils import is_email
 from ..AppriseLocale import gettext_lazy as _
 
-# Used to validate your personal access apikey
-VALIDATE_API_KEY = re.compile(r'^[a-z0-9]{32}-[a-z0-9]{8}-[a-z0-9]{8}$', re.I)
-
 # Provide some known codes Mailgun uses and what they translate to:
 # Based on https://documentation.mailgun.com/en/latest/api-intro.html#errors
 MAILGUN_HTTP_ERROR_MAP = {
@@ -138,7 +134,6 @@ class NotifyMailgun(NotifyBase):
         'apikey': {
             'name': _('API Key'),
             'type': 'string',
-            'regex': (r'[a-z0-9]{32}-[a-z0-9]{8}-[a-z0-9]{8}', 'i'),
             'private': True,
             'required': True,
         },
@@ -184,12 +179,6 @@ class NotifyMailgun(NotifyBase):
             self.logger.warning(msg)
             raise TypeError(msg)
 
-        if not VALIDATE_API_KEY.match(self.apikey):
-            msg = 'The API Key specified ({}) is invalid.' \
-                  .format(apikey)
-            self.logger.warning(msg)
-            raise TypeError(msg)
-
         # Validate our username
         if not self.user:
             msg = 'No username was specified.'
diff --git a/test/test_rest_plugins.py b/test/test_rest_plugins.py
index 0a99b08c..ff6380a9 100644
--- a/test/test_rest_plugins.py
+++ b/test/test_rest_plugins.py
@@ -787,10 +787,6 @@ TEST_URLS = (
     ('mailgun://user@host', {
         'instance': TypeError,
     }),
-    # Token specified but it's invalid
-    ('mailgun://user@host/{}'.format('a' * 12), {
-        'instance': TypeError,
-    }),
     # Token is valid, but no user name specified
     ('mailgun://host/{}-{}-{}'.format('a' * 32, 'b' * 8, 'c' * 8), {
         'instance': TypeError,