Allow users to create record via email

[Adam Milgrom]

Hi,

Has anyone ever come across or had any experience with a good tutorial for how apps create the setup so users can create a record by sending an email to a unique email address assigned to their account? This is common in task management apps where you can create tasks by emailing things in, or they have it in evernote where you can create a new note by sending anything to a unique email assigned to your account.

I've been googling, but can't seem to come up with the right descriptors.

Thank you,

Adam

[Darren Gussin]

Google "gem inbound email"

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[Adam Milgrom]

Thank you. That was the missing link in my googling; that you don’t have to handle the emails yourself, but that these mail services receive it and convert it to a POST action.

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[Peter Keen]

Of the services available, I've found Mailgun to be the best at this. They do a bunch of processing on the message before they fire off a web hook so that you can, for example, just extract a reply instead of reply plus quotes plus signatures etc. Their attachment handling is also very nice. You can tell them to store a message for up to three days and fire off a web hook so you can pick up attachments at a later date (I'm actually using that feature right now for a project).

--Pete

[Adam Milgrom]

Very cool, and good to be aware of. Thank you.