The Pain of DIY Inbound Email

Let’s break it down:

MX Records: You’re configuring DNS for every domain.
Parsing: You’re decoding multipart MIME by hand (and testing every weird edge case).
Spam Filtering: You either accept everything (hello, spam) or write clunky filters.
Retries & Queues: A single transient bounce? Your email is gone forever.
Monitoring: If your server goes down, so do your customer workflows.

All of this just to get what you actually need — subject, sender, body text, and attachments — into your app.

The API Era of Email

Thankfully, the tide is turning. With players like Resend announcing a private beta for inbound email, and tools like inbound.new already in production, email receiving is finally getting the same treatment as email sending:

Webhook-first: Your app just receives structured JSON.
Simple domain setup: One-click MX + DKIM config.
Attachments + metadata: No more parsing nightmares.
Retries + deduplication: Because dropped messages aren’t an option.

Why inbound.new Exists

We built inbound.new for developers who never want to maintain a mail server again.

Send, receive, and reply — all in one API.
Instant webhooks with message, headers, and files included.
Production-ready today, not on a months-long waitlist.
DX you’ll love — clear docs, test events, and SDKs.

If you’ve been waiting for the industry to catch up, good news: you don’t have to wait.

Your Action Plan Tonight

Kill the mail server.
Stop wasting engineering cycles on email plumbing.
Ship features, not MIME parsers.