Inbound Webhook is a feature that allows processing of incoming emails for a domain or subdomain. The feature parses the contents of the email and POSTs the information to a specified URL in a multipart/form-data format.

This feature is available only in Novu cloud. This feature will not work in community self hosted version and local environment.

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Steps to set up Inbound Webhook

  1. Set up an MX Record:
    • Log in to your domain host’s website and navigate to the MX Records page.
    • Create a new MX record for the subdomain you want to process incoming email (e.g. parse.yourdomain.com).
    • Assign the MX record a priority of 10 and point it to the specified inbound mail server that located on the admin dashboard on the Email Settings.

      For US, use inbound-mail.novu.co and For EU, use eu.inbound-mail.novu.co

  2. Add Domain to allowed list:
    • Log in to the dashboard.
    • Navigate to Email Settings in Settings.
    • Add your domain to the allowed list.
  3. Enable Inbound Parse and Set Webhook URL:
    • Log in to the dashboard.
    • Navigate to the Workflow Editor.
    • Select the email step.
    • Enable the Inbound Parse feature.
    • Set the Webhook URL to the location where you want the parsed data to be POSTed.
The Webhook URL must be publicly accessible.