Email Trigger

The Email Trigger is a powerful feature that allows you to initiate a BuildShip workflow every time an email is sent to the email address provided by the trigger. This trigger provides a convenient and automated way to integrate email communication into your workflows, enabling a wide range of use cases and automations.

How It Works

Email Address

When you set up the Email Trigger, BuildShip generates a unique, custom email address for your workflow. This email address follows the format workflowId@buildship.email. For example, if your workflow ID is E0J4S2eQy5ND8fTXCCns, the corresponding email address would be E0J4S2eQy5ND8fTXCCns@buildship.email.

Whenever an email is sent to this custom email address, the Email Trigger is activated, and the workflow is initiated.

Email Content Access

The entire email content, including the subject, body, attachments, and metadata, is made available to the workflow as the request body. You can access and process this information using the appropriate nodes within your workflow. Learn more.

Using the Email Trigger

To use the Email Trigger, follow these steps:

1. Create a new workflow in your BuildShip Project, or open an existing workflow that you want to add the Email Trigger to.
2. Click on "Add Trigger" button. In the Trigger Library, select the "Email Trigger".
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   In case of modifying an existing workflow, delete the existing trigger and then click on "Add Trigger" button. In the Trigger Library, select the "Email Trigger".

3. You'll be able to access the incoming Email data in the following nodes via the context menu.
4. Save the workflow and note the custom email address generated for the Email Trigger.

Once the Email Trigger is set up, you can initiate the associated workflow by simply sending an email to the provided custom email address. The workflow will automatically start executing, and you can process the email content using the appropriate nodes within your workflow.

Accessing Email Data

The Email Trigger provides access to the entire email content, including the subject, body, attachments, and metadata. You can access this information in the following nodes. For example, you can extract the email body, or perform any desired actions based on the received email content.