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The InboundEmail is an Active Record that keeps a reference to the raw email stored in Active Storage and tracks the status of processing. By default, incoming emails will go through the following lifecycle:

  • Pending: Just received by one of the ingress controllers and scheduled for routing.

  • Processing: During active processing, while a specific mailbox is running its process method.

  • Delivered: Successfully processed by the specific mailbox.

  • Failed: An exception was raised during the specific mailbox’s execution of the process method.

  • Bounced: Rejected processing by the specific mailbox and bounced to sender.

Once the InboundEmail has reached the status of being either delivered, failed, or bounced, it’ll count as having been processed?. Once processed, the InboundEmail will be scheduled for automatic incineration at a later point.

When working with an InboundEmail, you’ll usually interact with the parsed version of the source, which is available as a Mail object from mail. But you can also access the raw source directly using the source method.

Examples:

inbound_email.mail.from # => 'david@loudthinking.com'
inbound_email.source # Returns the full rfc822 source of the email as text
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Instance Public methods

mail()

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# File actionmailbox/app/models/action_mailbox/inbound_email.rb, line 33
def mail
  @mail ||= Mail.from_source(source)
end

processed?()

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# File actionmailbox/app/models/action_mailbox/inbound_email.rb, line 41
def processed?
  delivered? || failed? || bounced?
end

source()

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# File actionmailbox/app/models/action_mailbox/inbound_email.rb, line 37
def source
  @source ||= raw_email.download
end