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Action Mailbox
Action Mailbox routes incoming emails to controller-like mailboxes for processing in your Rails application. Action Mailbox is for receiving email, while Action Mailer is for sending them.
The inbound emails are routed asynchronously using Active Job to one or several dedicated mailboxes.
These emails are turned into
InboundEmailrecords using Active Record, which are capable of interacting directly with the rest of your domain model.InboundEmail records also provide lifecycle tracking, storage of the original email via Active Storage, and responsible data handling with on-by-default incineration.
Action Mailbox ships with ingresses which enable your application to receive emails from external email providers such as Mailgun, Mandrill, Postmark, and SendGrid.
You can also handle inbound emails directly via the built-in Exim, Postfix, and Qmail ingresses.