Kanboard-Prod/doc/en_US/create-tasks-by-email.markdown

Create tasks by email

You can create tasks directly by sending an email. This feature is available by using plugins.

At the moment, Kanboard is integrated with 3 external services:

• Mailgun
• Sendgrid
• Postmark

These services handle incoming emails without having to configure any SMTP server.

When an email is received, Kanboard receive the message on a specific end-point. All complicated works are already handled by those services.

Incoming emails workflow

1. You send an email to a specific address, for example myproject@inbound.mydomain.tld
2. Your email is forwarded to the third-party SMTP servers
3. The SMTP provider call the Kanboard web hook with the email in JSON or multipart/form-data formats
4. Kanboard parses the received email and create the task to the right project

Notes

• The Kanboard web hook is protected by a random token
• The sender email address must match a Kanboard user
• The Kanboard user must be a member of the project
• Kanboard is able to convert only simple HTML emails to Markdown
• New tasks are automatically created in the first column
• Refer to the documentation of each plugin for the configuration