Add Inbound Email to Your App

Receive emails via webhooks or real-time push notifications. Handle inbound email with a simple API — no mail server required.

Common inbound email use cases

See how developers use email-to-webhook for their applications

Reply-by-Email

Let users respond to notifications directly from their inbox — no portal login required.

Email Testing

Flake-free email testing for CI/CD pipelines. Test real email flows in Playwright and Cypress.

Webhook Triggers

Turn incoming emails into instant webhook events. Trigger workflows the moment email arrives.

Why receiving email is hard

Building it yourself

  • 4-6 weeks of engineering time
  • MIME parsing edge cases
  • Attachment handling complexity
  • Spam filtering & deliverability
  • 24/7 uptime monitoring

With Mailhooks

  • Running in 2 minutes
  • Structured JSON webhooks
  • Attachments as URLs
  • Automatic spam filtering
  • 99.9% uptime SLA
  • Bring your own cloud storage

Integrate in under 2 minutes

// Receive emails via webhook
app.post('/webhook/email', (req, res) => {
  const { from, subject, text, html } = req.body;

  // Process the incoming email
  console.log('New email from:', from);

  res.sendStatus(200);
});

Choose your delivery method

Two ways to receive emails — pick what works for your architecture

Webhooks

  • Best for servers with public endpoints
  • One-shot HTTP requests
  • Works with serverless functions
  • Automatic retries on failure

Use when: You have infrastructure to receive HTTP requests

Real-time (SSE)

  • Outbound connections only
  • No ngrok needed for local dev
  • Works in browsers and firewalled envs
  • Built-in auto-reconnection

Use when: You can't expose endpoints or need client-side notifications

Start receiving inbound email today

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