These features will set up "webhooks" for your account. They work with custom scripts hosted at the URLs specified by the user in the settings. These are considered "advanced" settings that are part of our HTTP API. To find the webhook feature, please go to the Notifications section of your Settings screen.

Please note that the webhook feature is reserved for Marketing PRO and Email API PRO plans only.

Notification URL – URL of the hosted script on your server used to catch notifications from our platform. In order to validate, the script needs to return a ‘200 OK’ status and accept GET request. If for any reason your code stops parsing data from us, we will turn off notifications after 1000 failures due to security measures. The notification URL can be inserted here:

Notify On – You can specify which email status will prompt the HTTP notification by checking which statuses to "Notify On".
You can choose from:

Sent – when you want to receive notifications for sent emails,

Opened – when you want to receive notifications for opened emails,

Clicked – when you want to receive notifications for clicked emails,

Unsubscribed – when you want to receive notifications about users unsubscribing from your email,

Complaints – when you want to receive notifications for all types of complaints,

Bounce / Error– when you want to receive notifications for bounced emails.

URL Parameters

These are the parameters that are passed with every notification.

from - sender's email address

to - recipient's email address

date - date and time of the event, UTC

subject - subject of an email

status - Sent, Opened, Clicked, *Error, **AbuseReport, Unsubscribed

channel - name of the channel corresponding to this job

account - account's email address

category - message category of bounced email

messageid - The MessageID of an email

transaction - The TransactionID of an email. A string guide returned by/mailer/send

*Bounces also fall into this status

**Complaints also fall into this status

For opens and clicks only:

IP - IP address of the recipient

Useragent - software used by the recipient to receive emails

Country - recipient's country of residence

State - recipient's state of residence

City - recipient's city of residence
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The "category" parameter can have following values:

Ignore
Spam
BlackListed (Identical to "Poor reputation" bounce category)
NoMailbox
GreyListed
Throttled
Timeout
ConnectionProblem
SPFProblem
AccountProblem
DNSProblem
WhitelistingProblem
CodeError
ManualCancel
ConnectionTerminated
ContentFilter
NotDelivered
Unknown

target - URL address of clicked link which is notified

postback - (optional) - custom header you can provide on submitting. You must first turn on "Allow custom headers" on your account's Sending Settings screen. You can pass as many custom postback headers as you want.

In API:

postback-MyHeader=value

or

headers_postback-MyHeader=postback-MyHeader: value

In SMTP:

X-ElasticEmail-Postback:value

Example Notification

Plain text example:

http://www.somehost.com/can/be/anything?transaction=a58d3de8-b003-48ba-8e0e-9877c70d264f&to=someone@somehost.com&date=3/10/2012 10:20:30 AM&status=Clicked&channel=your channel name&account=your@account.email.com

The request will be URL encoded:

http://www.somehost.com/can/be/anything?transaction=a58d3de8-b003-48ba-8e0e-9877c70d264f&to=someone%40somehost.com&date=3%2f10%2f2012+10%3a20%3a30+AM&status=Clicked&channel=

You can see your notifications when you enter Activity>View>Notification Log:

Reroute your inbound notifications either to an HTTP URL or an inbox set up on your own domain. You can create multiple routes and change their order or stop them entirely.

You can set up the Inbound Notification to be forwarded:

There is also an option to "Stop" inbound email notifications. This way all emails will be sent to our servers but will not be forwarded anywhere.

If you send emails using your main email address (name@yourdomain.com), but you would like to receive emails on a different email address (e.g. name_1@yourdomain.com) you must first configure the redirection in the MX records for your domain and then turn this setting on. The emails will be picked up by our platform, parsed and sent as post data to your URL.

Update your domain's MX Record "mx.yourdomain.com". Change it to "mx.inbound.elasticemail.com".
Emails sent to "anything@yourdomain.com" will get captured and parsed by our system and then sent as a web notification to your web server or application. Inbound emails are charged at the same rate as the account's pricing level.

from_email (from address)

from_name (from name)

env_from (envelope from address - MAIL FROM)

env_to_list (list of envelope to addresses - RCPT TO, separated by CRLF)

to_list (list of email addresses the email was sent to separated by /r/n)

header_list (email headers as HeaderName: HeaderValue separated by /r/n)

subject (email subject)

body_text (text body content)

body_html (html body content)

att1_name=attachment_file_name&att1_content=encoded_to_base64_binary_data

att2_name=attachment_file_name&att2_content=encoded_to_base64_binary_data

You can also receive any custom postback header as described in the previous section.

All code samples are licensed under MIT license.