"Email to Make" ? Can I send an email to Make as a trigger?

Hi community! New to Make, have previous experience with Zapier.

Zapier has a function called “Email By Zapier” where it will create you a private Zapier-only email address (e.g. email123@zapiermail.com) where you can trigger a flow by sending an email to that Zapier email address.

Does Make have something comparable to this? I’m not immediately seeing anything; I don’t see this as a capability within the “Email” module.

Ultimately I’m wanting to send an email that contains an mp3 attachment so that I can grab that to have a transcription of that mp3 created.

Any ideas??

Thanks in advance!! :raised_hands:

Hello @Phil_Masi and welcome to the Make Community!

Yes, Make has this option under the Webhooks App.
Look for Mailhook.

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Hey @Donald_Mitchell, thanks for the heads up on this! Yes, this is what I was looking for.

Follow-up question on this specifically. As I mentioned in my original post, we are sending in an mp3 file attached to the email.

However, the next step in the scenario is relying on a URL for the audio file…

Do you know if it’s possible to retrieve a url from our attached audio file, from within this email?

If your Mailhook is receiving an email with an attached MP3, but the module after needs the URL of the file and not the data itself, you’ll need to upload the MP3 to a file hosting service that provides public URLs, then provide that public URL to the next module.

You might be able to use Google Drive for this but there are other options too, just don’t know them at the moment.

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One of the possible solutions to retrieve a public URL is to use 0CodeKit and their temporary storage service.

You can also use FTP, an S3 bucket, and probably a few other methods. Be aware that in some cases Dropbox links may not work so it should not be your 1st choice.

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