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Re:Free Transactional Email Services – The Best Alternatives... by easyd on Monday March 21, 2016 @12:42PM (#11329355)
Mailgun has a great inbound api [1]. You can set up routing rules to let them post the email as json (or just forward it) to a specified url. The json also includes fields for the extracted quoted parts and signature. The latter is based on some machine learning, which other providers don't have afaik.

[1] https://documentation.mailgun.com/quickstart-receiving.html

Re:Free Transactional Email Services – The Best Alternatives... by thedufer on Monday March 21, 2016 @02:17PM (#11330348)
I would second Mailgun for inbound email. Granted, my use-case is very low-volume, but it works great and the email parsing seems to be pretty good.

I've previously used Mandrill for inbound, which has a lot of problems that I'd rather not enumerate. But that was at a much higher scale, so many of those problems I wouldn't have seen yet even if Mailgun has them.

Re:Free Transactional Email Services – The Best Alternatives... by pfooti on Monday March 21, 2016 @12:49PM (#11329418)
Ooooh, that would be pretty handy. I've been relying on good old "please reply above this line" to parse inbound emails, precisely because I didn't want to muck around with ML to infer user intent (I reeeeally wish quotes, the reply-date separator, and signature blocks were standardized somehow). If there's a reliable improvement to this functionality provided by my email service, that's 100% a feature I'm willing to pay for. Thanks.