Trying to set up reply by email: ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [POST] "/admin/email/handle_mail")

[Cameron_D]

@anon20593648

There aren’t even any docs I can find explaining the format of the HTTP POST request to send to admin/email/handle_mail. Just this topic which is not explicit at all.

That topic contains your answer:

to push an email to Discourse, you need to pass the raw email content as the “email” parameter when POSTing to “/admin/email/handle_mail”

Easiest way to get reply by email working is to use the mail-receiver container template, rather than trying to work with all sorts of varying APIs from the different providers.

Direct-delivery incoming email for self-hosted sites

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