Company
Date Published
Author
Michael Okoko
Word count
1855
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The article describes how to process incoming emails from a Laravel application using SendGrid's Inbound Parse feature. The tutorial covers creating a new Laravel project, setting up SendGrid and its API keys, defining database models for posts and responses, seeding the database with dummy data, configuring routes for sending and receiving emails, rendering views for displaying posts and their responses, disabling CSRF protection for the webhook route, and configuring Inbound Parse to trigger the webhook handler when incoming emails are received. The process also involves setting up a Ngrok tunnel to expose the Laravel server's port on the internet and simulating automated email processing by sending test emails to predefined recipients.