An open-source email parsing microservice for HTTP APIs. Written in Go. Receive email at your project's email address and automatically initiate a JSON formatted POST request to your app's existing API.

Dewmail will receive emails on behalf of your domain and initiate a JSON encoded POST request to your API. Let's look at a specific example to cover some of the implementation details.

First, create the following MX records for your domain example.com

	TYPE|SUBDOMAIN|MAILSERVER HOST|PREF|TTL
	----|---------|---------------|----|---
	MX|api|in1.dewmail.org.|10|300
	MX|api|in2.dewmail.org.|20|300

You may then send an email from any client--for example, consider the following message.

To: [email protected]
Subject: mail
Body: unsubscribe

Dewmail will receive and parse your email generating the following JSON request {"body":"unsubscribe","from":"[email protected]","sender-IP":"12.34.56.78","spf":"Pass","subject":"mail","time":"2015-01-17T08:00:39Z","to":"[email protected]"}, which it will submit to http://api.example.com/foo/bar. Your API can then parse the message however you see fit.

For a demo, send an email to [email protected] and go to http://dewmail.org/demo.php.

1. Add the following MX record to the domain you wish to receive calls from Dewmail.

    TYPE|SUBDOMAIN|MAILSERVER HOST|PREF|TTL
    ----|---------|---------------|----|---
    MX|somesubdomain|in1.dewmail.org.|10|300
    MX|somesubdomain|in2.dewmail.org.|20|300
   

   Note: this will be the domain of the email address you must receive messages at and also the domain Dewmail will POST to looking for your API.

2. Pull down Dewmail binary or build from source.

3. Optional, add site to webserver if you want a way to query app status via HTTP. A sample Apache .htaccess file is provided to proxy requests for /up to the Dewmail app and will display a message if the service is up.

4. Make sure port 25 isn't blocked by your firewall.

5. Start Dewmail.

6. Start sending emails.

The previous example describes the default setup. There are a few options that may be configured for your particular setup. The following options can be set in the master configuration file config.go.