Ingest email via something other than IMAP

[ptman]

E.g. a webhook so that one could write a really small piece of software to deliver email from the MTA without having to have an IMAP account set up.

[freescout-helpdesk]

IMAP is used to fetch emails from the mailbox (not to send).
Can you give an example of the software?

[dabeeeenster]

Support for things like Mailgun incoming mail webhooks would be perfect

[ptman]

Sure. Say you're running postfix. You can add pipe commands to aliases -files or ~/.forward:

# /etc/aliases
mymailinglist: |/usr/local/bin/command-that-processes-mail --mailing-list-name mymailinglist
# ~/.forward
|/usr/local/bin/command-that-processes-mail --mailing-list-name myusername

[mattsims]

@freescout-helpdesk I'm up for the challenge, can you assign this task to me?

[freescout-helpdesk]

You are welcome to implement it.

[freescout-helpdesk]

Implementation using https://github.com/beyondcode/laravel-mailbox will add several extra dependencies, so it would be better to implement it as a module.

#254

[mattsims]

No problem. Is there any documentation on creating modules? Or should I just examine an existing module?

What were your thoughts on a Laravel v5.7 compatible release? As would still need this even if the new functionality is introduced via a module.

[freescout-helpdesk]

Upgrading to Laravel v5.7 is not planned for now. You will need to make chosen package working on Laravel v5.7.

[iPublicis]

No problem. Is there any documentation on creating modules? Or should I just examine an existing module?

Thanks for getting forward on this.

Piping email with Laravel example at https://www.sitepoint.com/piping-emails-laravel-application/
Sample module for FreeScout at https://github.com/freescout-helpdesk/SampleModule

[iPublicis]

Hi @mattsims. Any news on this front?

[freescout-helpdesk]

Feel free to use https://freescout.net/module/api-webhooks/ or https://freescout.net/zapier/