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"Let your users leave comments, answer simple questions, upload data as attachments and interact with each other using their email clients."

Q: So a customer can reply back to one of your emails and it turns into a comment?

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With a little bit of coding on your part - yes.

Off topic: Is your username a reference to BBC Three's Old Gregg "episode"? I sure hope so. =)

Yes. Hopefully this won't affect the corporate image of Mailgun in any way :)

Which is in turn a reference to some guy yelling out "I'm old greeeeegg" across the crowd at Glastonbury. Funny how that crazed party tripper has, in his little way, affected all of our lives.

I'm curious about this. I found the tagging functionality for outbound mail. If I tag an outbound message, and someone replies to it, can I easily read back the tag from the reply message?

Put another way--I want to send an outbound email in relation to a specific thread/ID, and if someone replies I want to associate their reply with that ID. What's the best way to do this with your system?

For your use case I would add your own Message-ID MIME header to the outgoing message. When a user replies, usually (in most cases) you'll see the ID of the original message as In-Reply-To header.

And it will be posted as In-Reply-To HTTP parameter to your app. There's also "References" MIME header you can use.

I hope this helps.

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