Add ability to send emails to Monica and associate it with a contact

[djaiss]

Also called inbound email processing.

We forward an email to Monica and it automatically saves it to the sender's contact entry on the server.

[degan6]

This kind of thing would be great for the mobile app too but for content.

Both IOS and Android have the share action, so it would be possible to share content (emails, photos, files, tweets) with Monica and put them on one or more contacts.

[wearpants]

+1 - mainly using monica for business leads, this would seriously streamline my workflow

[turtles2]

@djaiss I would like to work on the back-end for this. Since the hosted version already uses Postmark my plan is to work with there API unless I can find a good Laravel package.

[turtles2]

I am thinking that we use the sending address on the email to tie to a user as we are assuming its being forwarded from there email correct?

[djaiss]

@turtles2 that would be excellent. I found a package for this a while ago, don't remember the name...

I don't know how you want to do that, but here is what I think we should do: follow what Highrise does. I don't see any other way actually. Can you explain how you want to do this? This will also require some sort of MX field to configure, I assume...

[turtles2]

I am on Mobile so I won't go into details but hopefully tonight or tomorrow I will push to the PR and you will be able to see what I have in mind. It is going to be a rough proff of concept.

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I don't know how you want to do that, but here is what I think we should do: follow what Highrise does https://help.highrisehq.com/email/email-intro/#how-do-you-find-your-dropbox-address. I don't see any other way actually. Can you explain how you want to do this? This will also require some sort of MX field to configure, I assume...

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[TomGranot]

So, just to wrap up, I guess this can be closed due to https://github.com/monicahq/monica/pull/1311 (well, due to https://github.com/monicahq/monica/pull/1311#issuecomment-475104214 specifically), right?

[TomGranot]

I find that one of the foremost issues for me is actually following up on e-mail conversations. If it's WhatsApp or LinkedIn then I make notes, but e-mail... I'd much prefer to just forward the e-mails to monica.

[alephtaph]

Yes please add the option to forward emails to Monica.

• Maybe each contact has its own identifier or address so we can just forward the email to that specific address.
• Or there is some kind of inbox where emails can be assigned to a contact

This for me is the main feature I am missing. Any approach in this direction?