Google has an amazing history in Cloud computing and their Cloud Platform is no different. From compute to machine learning Google has some really interesting offerings.
CloudMailin is a tool for developers to make it easy to receive email via an API WebHook. You send CloudMailin an email and it will come as an HTTP POST to your site. Leaving you free to do what you do best and not having to worry about managing email servers.
CloudMailin was designed from the ground up to work well with Cloud and allows you to easily scale up email receiving needs as demand increases.
CloudMailin can automatically send message attachments to Google Cloud Storage. We call this feature Attachment Stores. This offloads the handling of attachments and can really reduce the burden on your API. The rest of the email is sent to your website, without having to receive the attachment as well.
This can help improve performance but also makes it much faster to get started with CloudMailin.
In addition we have the ability to store the entire email, either RAW or in JSON form in Google Cloud Storage.
In order to enable this feature or if you want more details please contact us.
CloudMailin contacts your servers via HTTP POST, making it fully independent of the Cloud used. It is however, possible to create dedicated servers within the Google infrastructure in order to reduce latency or to prevent content leaving a specific region if your application requires it.
Google Cloud Storage is available in the following regions, we can support placing attachments or dedicated servers into the following zones.
| Region | Name |
|---|---|
| Council Bluffs, IA | us-central1 |
| Berkeley County, SC | us-east1 |
| The Dalles, OR | us-west1 |
| St. Ghislain, Belgium | europe-west1 |
| Changhua County, Taiwan | asia-east1 |
| Tokyo, Japan | asia-northeast1 |
We're quickly adding support for other regions so contact us if your preferred region isn't available.
We also recommend you look at our general Getting Started Guide as it explains in more detail how you will be sent messages, how the HTTP Status codes you respond with affect the message delivery and walks you through receiving your first email.
We recommend taking a look at our HTTP POST Formats. These show the format of the webhook POST to your website and some sample code to get started.
If you need any help contact us and we can help you get setup receiving email with the Google Cloud Platform.