Inbound Email Processing

Use a pre-made inbound address or set them up with your own domain.

You can use an automatically generated Postmark email address (123xyz@inbound.postmarkapp.com) or customize your inbound address to use your own domain and enable you to create multiple inbound addresses for each domain.

Being able to handle inbound email as a first-class part of email structure was the main thing. Our email transactions are two-way — it is important that people can both receive and send email to us. Postmark really impressed us with their focus on transactional emails, instead of just broadcasting.

Cliff Chang Product Engineer

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Extensive parsing and spam scoring give you easy-to-use structured JSON.

Postmark converts the email into an orderly bundle of JSON to make it incredibly easy for your application to consume and process the resulting text. The recipients, header, and even a clean version of the text reply are all included.

To: 451d9b70cf9364d23ff6f9d51d870251569e+ahoy@inbound.postmarkapp.com

From: sender@example.com

CC: copied@example.com

Subject: Test

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Dolores eaque eveniet itaque iusto maxime minus qui ratione repellendus! Consequuntur culpa dolorum explicabo ipsum iusto nobis quod recusandae repellat repellendus suscipit?

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{
  "From": "sender@example.com",
  "To": "451d9b70cf9364d23ff6f9d51d870251569e+ahoy@inbound.postmarkapp.com",
  "Cc": "copied@example.com",
  "Subject": "Test",
  "HtmlBody": "Lorem ipsum",
  "TextBody": "Lorem ipsum",
  "ReplyTo": "reply@example.com",
  "Attachments": [{
    "Name": "image.png",
    "Content": "[BASE64-ENCODED CONTENT]",
    "ContentType": "image/png",
    "ContentLength": 4096,
    "ContentID": "myimage.png@01CE7342.75E71F80"
  }]
}

Postmark has a reputation for high quality. Even though there are several good companies, we were convinced by Postmark’s clear documentation and transparent roadmap. Further, building email infrastructure is really a partnership — we wanted to invest in a platform that would continue to grow along with our needs, not one that was fairly static and falling behind the technology curve.

Cliff Chang Product Engineer

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{
  "Headers": [
    {
      "Name": "X-Spam-Status",
      "Value": "No"
    },
    {
      "Name": "X-Spam-Score",
      "Value": "-0.1"
    },
    {
      "Name": "X-Spam-Tests",
      "Value": "DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,SPF_PASS"
    }
  ]
}

Integrate your users’ email replies directly into your application.

Use a pre-made inbound address or set them up with your own domain.

Extensive parsing and spam scoring give you easy-to-use structured JSON.

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Use a pre-made inbound address or set them up with your own domain.

Extensive parsing and spam scoring give you easy-to-use structured JSON.

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