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CloudMailin

Long-running inbound email to HTTP service.

overview

CloudMailin has been doing inbound email to HTTP since 2010. Reliable, no-frills, JSON or raw MIME delivery.

for developers picking email infrastructure

The question here is which one a backend engineer would rather operate. That means SDK depth in the language already in use, whether a retry can safely be replayed, how much the event log tells you when a customer says the email never arrived, and whether the pricing curve stays sane as volume grows.

Against password resets, receipts, and magic links shipped from application code, CloudMailin covers developer experience, event stream, and webhook coverage, and does not cover SDK breadth and idempotency keys. Whether that gap matters depends on how central those are to the build.

  • DX score: 6/10
  • SDKs: None
  • Idempotency keys: No
  • Operating since: Not published
  • Event stream: Yes
  • Best published rate per 1,000: Tiers not published in comparable form
  • Webhooks: Yes
  • Deliverability: Not applicable.
  • Free tier: No
deliverability

Not applicable.

best for

Established workloads that depend on a long-running provider.

pros
  • Mature product
  • Multiple payload formats
cons
  • No free tier
  • Older UI

Features at a glance

API Yes
SMTP No
SDKs None
Webhooks Yes
Templates none
React Email No
Batch send No
Scheduled send No
Suppressions No
Multi-tenant Yes
Inbound parsing Yes
Event stream Yes
Idempotency keys No
Dedicated IP No

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