Glossary
Inbound email
Email that arrives at your system, as opposed to email you send.
ValidReach Team · Updated 2026-10-26
In practice
Support inboxes, reply handling and automations that read incoming messages all deal with it. Services can pass each arriving message to your app as a request, so you can act on replies, bounces and forwarded mail.
Verification and sending
Bounce notices are inbound email too. Handle them automatically so bad addresses are suppressed.