# Building Email Workflows with Inbound and Encore

DevFeed: [Building Email Workflows with Inbound and Encore](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-email-workflows-with-inbound-and-encore-17813.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://encore.dev/blog/inbound-tutorial>)

Author: Ivan Cernja

Published: 2025-12-23T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Encore Updates](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/encore-updates.md>)

Topics: [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [SDKs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdks.md>), [Secrets Management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/secrets-management.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [email](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/email.md>), [sdk](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sdk.md>), [secrets-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/secrets-management.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tutorial.md>), [webhooks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webhooks.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial showing how to build an email-processing backend with Inbound and Encore.ts. It covers sending email through a Resend-compatible SDK, receiving messages through webhooks, securely managing API keys with Encore secrets, and storing incoming emails in a SQL database for conversation tracking.

## Source excerpt

Send and receive emails programmatically without running a mail server.