Customize the private email address associated with your mailbox. Be sure to use lowercase and numbers only. Just forward emails to this address to trigger this Zap. *Want to receive to your own email address? Try Mailgun, IMAP, Mandrill, or Gmail instead.*

In order to trigger when emails are opened, this must be paired with a separate Zap using the **Send Outbound Email** action, with the **Enable Read Receipts?** field set to `True`.

To test with a live email, send an email to yourself using your **Send Outbound Email** action (with read receipts enabled) and open it, then test this trigger immediately for samples. If you don't need to test with live data, click Skip Test to use static test data.

**Trial or Free Zapier plan:**

 - Emails sent during [testing](https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/18811411817741-Test-Zap-steps "https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/18811411817741-Test-Zap-steps") are sent to the [Zapier account email address](https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496274581517-Change-your-Zapier-account-email-address "https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8496274581517-Change-your-Zapier-account-email-address"). Once published, emails go to the intended recipients (To, CC, BCC).
 - You can send a maximum of 5 emails per account per day.

**Paid Zapier plan:**

 - You can send a maximum of 10 emails per account per hour.

Can be a comma separated list of emails. Limited to 5.

You can place HTML in here and we will send it as is. If this is plain text, we will try to convert it to some very basic HTML for greater client compatibility.

A file object to be attached to the email. Plain text content will converted into a txt file and attached. Please note, if the file is over ~10mb or so, you should explore using other email sending techniques (like Gmail or SMTP).

This will be your "display name" when sending. *Want to send from your own email address? Try Mailgun, IMAP, Mandrill or Gmail apps instead.*

Specify a reply address other than your own.

Set this to "yes" if your emails are received without line breaks or spacing.

Want to be notified when this email is opened? Set this to to `True` and set up a Zap using the `New Read Receipt` trigger.

Send and receive email via a custom Zapier email address at "zapiermail.com". This is great for triggering off of emails and sending custom emails. (Max of 10 email sends per hour.)

Have direct access to your own email servers? Check out our IMAP and SMTP services!

Email by Zapier

Arguments that you want to provide to your Lambda function as input - you'll access it as the `event` object you may recognize from the [AWS Lambda documentation](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/walkthrough-custom-events.html).

The input object that you want to provide to your Lambda function.

We will use a Lambda function called `zapier_eval` - [the source is available here](https://gist.github.com/bryanhelmig/2c0ab8aa035145b78cee). All you need to do is provide a Javascript function called `handler(input, [callback])` below - it can be synchronous or asynchronous. [Read more here.](https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8495979521805-How-to-Get-Started-With-AWS-Lambda)

AWS Lambda is a compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the compute resources for you, making it easy to build applications that respond quickly to new information.

AWS Lambda

Simplify your email management process with this efficient workflow. As soon as a new email arrives in Email by Zapier, it triggers a specific AWS Lambda function for immediate action. Ensuring no message is overlooked, this automation helps streamline administrative tasks and enhance customer relations. Benefit from a seamlessly integrated workflow to save time and increase productivity.

AWS Lambda + Email by Zapier

Process new inbound emails in Email by Zapier and invoke functions in AWS Lambda

Supported triggers and actions

New Inbound Email

Email AddressRequired

Send Outbound Email

Free Test Limitation

ToRequired

SubjectRequired

Body (HTML or Plain)Required

Attachment

From Name

Reply To

Cc

Bcc

Force Linebreaks?

Enable read receipts?

Invoke Function (Async)

Region

FunctionRequired

ArgumentsRequired

Run Code

Region

Input ObjectRequired

CodeRequired

New Read Receipt

Setup Directions

New Function

Region

Invoke Function (Sync)

Region

FunctionRequired

ArgumentsRequired

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