Inbound Email Processing Overview

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In This Article:

• Set Up an Inbound Domain
• Add a Route
• Test Inbound Webhooks
• Inbound Events Format

Use our inbound processing to receive email for your application or let users interact with your app via email. Mandrill receives, processes, and parses email for your application, then sends it to you via HTTP POST webhooks.

Inbound processing isn’t designed to replace a traditional email inbox, but it lets you accept and process emails programmatically. Before you can receive email with Mandrill, you’ll need to set up an inbound domain and one or more routes.

Set Up an Inbound Domain
You can add inbound domains using the Mandrill API or web application. Let’s start by looking at how to add an inbound domain via the Mandrill API.

API
Using the inbound/add-domain endpoint, specify and API key and the subdomain you’d like to add:

{
"key": "example key",
"domain": "inbound.example.com"
}
Now that you’ve added the inbound domain, you’ll need to edit the MX records so they point at Mandrill’s servers. To get the appropriate MX records:

1. Go to Inbound in your Mandrill account.
2. Locate the domain you added via the API and click the DNS Settings button. A new window will appear with the MX settings for your Mandrill account. You’ll need to add these records or edit your existing MX records to point to the servers shown in that window only.