Accepting Incoming Email to Rails Apps via SendGrid’s Parse APIs
Presenters:SwiftDeveloper Evangelist, SendGrid
Caleb ThompsonSoftware Engineer, thoughtbot
Date: 5/7/2013
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HousekeepingØ ReadyTalk Conference Tools Console
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Ø Questions for Swift and Caleb
• Ask questions by using the CHAT function
• When the presentation begins, you will see the chat box as a floating window to use at any time
• We will answer as many questions as possible at the end of the webcast. Those questions that we don’t get to, will be answered in a follow up blog post
Ø Follow Up
• You will get an email with a link to the recording and a copy of all slides
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SendGrid Overview
• Founded July 2009
• TechStars graduate(Boulder, CO)
• 136 employees across 3 offices– Boulder, CO (HQ) and Denver, CO– R&D: Orange County, CA
$27M venture capital raisedSeries B closed Jan 2012
Angel investors include:• Scott Petry (Founder, Postini)• Matt Mullenweg (Founder, Wordpress)
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Delivering Email at Scale
• Serving 130,000+ customers
• Sending over 7 billion emailsper month
• Transactional and marketing email solutions
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Today’s Speakers
SwiftDeveloper Evangelist, [email protected]
Caleb ThompsonSoftware Engineer, [email protected]
Joel OliveiraSoftware Engineer, [email protected]
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The Inbound Parse Webhook
EMAIL JSON
1. User sends an email to *@yourapplication.com
2. SendGrid parses the email and attachments
3. You receive a JSON POST to your application
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Getting things setup
2. Point your domain’s MX records at SendGrid
Type ValueMX 0 mx.sendgrid.net
3. Return a 200 status code from your application
1. Configure your hostname and URL settings
http://sendgrid.com/developer/reply
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A Sample Payload{ "to":["[email protected]", "[email protected]"], "from":"Swift <[email protected]>", "subject":"SendGrid <3’s thoughbot", "text":"This is some text body action", "html":"Supports <em>HTML</em> as well.", "attachments": 1, // ...}
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Who uses the Parse API?
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Demo Time!http://github.com/theycallmeswift/playlist.sendgriddemos.com
http://playlist.sendgriddemos.com
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https://github.com/thoughtbot/griddler
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Demo
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Q&A and Next Steps
https://sendgrid.com/user/signup
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