Setting Up Email Mailboxes
A mailbox in Blocx is an inbound email address managed by Blocx — every new mailbox is allocated a unique random local part on the platform's inbound domain (something like q7k4p2j9x3m1b8t6@…). You can read messages in the dashboard, download the raw RFC-822 source, and stream new messages to your application by webhook.
Manage mailboxes at Email → Mailboxes.
When to use mailboxes
Mailboxes are the right fit when you need an addressable inbound endpoint — for example, parsing replies, capturing support tickets, ingesting bounces from your own listserv, or routing structured data emailed to a workflow. If you're forwarding mail from your own domain, set up a forwarding rule on your mail provider that points at the Blocx-issued address.
Creating a mailbox
- Open Email → Mailboxes.
- Click New mailbox.
- Give it an optional label so you can recognize it in the list (e.g., "Support replies", "Webhook ingest").
- Click Create.
The mailbox's full inbound address is shown on the detail page — copy it to your provider or whoever needs to send to it.
To process inbound mail in real time, configure a webhook endpoint at Developer → Webhooks and subscribe to the email.received event.
Viewing messages
Click a mailbox to see the message list at /email/mailboxes/<id>/messages, newest first. Click any message to see the parsed headers and body. You can also download the original RFC-822 .eml source from the message detail page — useful when you need the raw bytes for forensics or to replay it through another system.
Renaming or deleting
Use the actions menu on a mailbox row to update the label or delete the mailbox. Deleting stops accepting mail at that address; messages already received remain accessible until the mailbox is deleted.