CloudMailin vs PHP MIME Mail Parser

CloudMailin receives email and delivers it to web applications through HTTP POST webhooks. Inbound messages can arrive as JSON, multipart form data, or raw text; attachments can be forwarded to a webhook or stored in Amazon S3, Azure Storage, or Google Cloud Storage. It also sends transactional email through an API or SMTP relay. Outbound tools include spam checks, link and open tracking, bounce handling, reporting, tagging, and priority queues. Inbound delivery history includes 30 days of searchable records with error and retry details, while metadata retention is listed as 60 days. CloudMailin says its inbound service works with any language or framework, naming examples from Node.js and Python to Java and C#. The service was founded in 2010 and is available through an API and the web. A free plan allows 10,000 emails per month and 512KB per message. Paid plans start at $25 a month; the listed options include different email and message-size limits. A seven-day trial is also listed.

PHP MIME Mail Parser is a PHP library for reading MIME email, built around the mailparse extension. It can handle mail forwarded from Postfix, read.eml messages, support webmail creation, and store email information in a database. Messages may be provided by file path, raw MIME text, PHP file resource, or stream such as stdin. The parser returns headers as raw text or an array with character-set conversion, and can extract addresses and subject. For message content, it retrieves text and HTML bodies, including HTML with embedded content such as images. It can list and save attachments, include or omit inline attachments, and apply a strategy for duplicate filenames. Installation is recommended through Composer as php-mime-mail-parser/php-mime-mail-parser. It requires PHP 8.2 or later and the mailparse extension; listed supported PHP versions are 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, and 8.5. The library supports Linux, macOS, Windows, and self-hosted use, and is released under the MIT license. Pricing is free.