Inbound emails via Postfix or Exim

[juliusrickert]

I would love to see support for a local relay, based on Postfix or Exim, to accept emails and post them to the endpoint provided by Action Mailbox: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/v6.0/action_mailbox_basics.html#postfix

This would simplify setups in which emails are sent to Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or a self-hosted mail server, as one could simply set up a routing rule to forward the messages meant for Chatwoot to the Postfix/Exim relay and eliminate the need for an external service. To secure the relay, one could use IP ranges of the service/server accepting the messages and/or a secret local alias.

[vishnu-narayanan]

https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot/pull/5899

[juliusrickert]

@vishnu-narayanan Thank you for the update.

As far as I can tell, the pull request is not related to this issue, is it? This issue is concerned with inbound messages, not outbound messages.

[vishnu-narayanan]

@juliusrickert Sorry about the late reply here. You are right. This linked PR added support for using postfix to send emails.

Marked the issues as related due to the "postfix" factor 😅