December 2018 Summaries

The Postmark team has introduced a feature that allows easier template management across different environments, such as development, testing, and production servers. This new feature addresses the pain point of managing changes to templates across multiple servers, which was previously time-consuming and error-prone. With the introduction of a "Push" button, users can now easily push template changes from one server to another, either via the UI or a new API endpoint. The feature also includes the ability to manage template aliases, making it easier to reuse common elements in templates. Additionally, Postmark has released Layouts, which solves the pain point of defining reusable components in templates.

When using generated email addresses with G Suite (Google Apps) and Postmark, you can process incoming emails efficiently by setting up a catch-all address in your G Suite account. This allows you to route emails to the right place based on their local-part and from address. By configuring routing settings in the Google Admin portal and creating an inbound forwarding rule, you can forward emails from your catch-all address into Postmark's server. In Postmark, you set up an inbound webhook to deliver incoming emails as JSON data to your product. To process these emails, you need to parse the incoming Postmark webhook, which involves inspecting the "To" value of the email and using a specific header named X-Gm-Original-To to determine the true "To" address. With this setup, you can automate tasks such as updating issues in an issue tracking tool or processing job applications in a job applicant tracking tool.