Add bounced emails to the conversation thread.
Fix Gmail bounce detection by checking the X-Failed-Recipients header.
Currently, bounced emails are rejected as auto-replies, which causes
support agents to miss important delivery failure context. This PR
ensures bounced messages are correctly added to the thread, preserving
visibility for the support team.
In Chatwoot, we rely on the Content-ID for inline attachments to replace
the link with the uploaded attachment URL. Our expectation was that only
images would be inline, while other attachments would not. However,
email clients like Apple Mail (sigh) allow users to send inline
attachments that are not images, and these attachments often lack a
Content-ID. This creates significant issues in rendering.
I investigated how other email clients handle this scenario. When
viewing the same email (sent from Apple Mail) in Gmail, only one image
appears—and it’s treated as an attachment, not inline. This happens
because both attachments are the same image, and Apple Mail only sends
one copy. See the screenshot below.
| Apple Mail | Gmail |
| -- | -- |
| <img width="646" alt="Screenshot 2025-02-27 at 8 20 17 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e0d1cd2d-e47c-4081-a53b-7a67106341b3"
/> | <img width="360" alt="Screenshot 2025-02-27 at 8 20 51 PM"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b206e56e-8f86-43e9-867b-d895c36aff78"
/> |
A good fix for this would be to check if the Content-ID is missing and
then upload the file as a regular attachment. However, the Mail gem (for
some reason) automatically adds a default Content-ID to inline parts. I
need to dig into the source code to understand why this happens.
For now, I’ve implemented a check to treat non-image attachments as
regular attachments. Inline image attachments are already handled by
appending an image tag at the end if the content-id is not found in the
body. A sample conversation to test this behavior is
[here](https://app.chatwoot.com/app/accounts/1/conversations/46732).
Some email clients automatically set Content-Disposition to inline for
specific content types, such as images. In cases where the email body is
empty, inline attachments may not display correctly due to our previous
implementation. Our assumption was that these attachments are referenced
within text/plain or text/html parts.
Customer-reported issues, especially with Apple Mail, show emails with
attachments marked as inline but without any corresponding text parts.
This leads to missing attachments even though would have processed the
attachment.
This update introduces a check for the presence of a text part. If none
exists, inline attachments are treated as regular attachments and added
to the external attachments array, ensuring that all attachments display
properly.
<details>
<summary><b>Script to update the existing emails that are already
available in the system</b></summary>
```rb
def update_content id
message = Message.find id
conversation = message.conversation
message_id = message.source_id
channel = message.inbox.channel
authentication_type = 'XOAUTH2'
imap_password = Google::RefreshOauthTokenService.new(channel: channel).access_token
imap = Net::IMAP.new(channel.imap_address, port: channel.imap_port, ssl: true)
imap.authenticate(authentication_type, channel.imap_login, imap_password)
imap.select('INBOX')
results = imap.search(['HEADER', 'MESSAGE-ID', message_id])
message_content = imap.fetch(results.first, 'RFC822').first.attr['RFC822']
mail = MailPresenter.new(Mail.read_from_string(message_content))
mail_content = if mail.text_content.present?
mail.text_content[:reply]
elsif mail.html_content.present?
mail.html_content[:reply]
end
attachments = mail.attachments.last(Message::NUMBER_OF_PERMITTED_ATTACHMENTS)
inline_attachments = attachments.select { |attachment| attachment[:original].inline? && mail_content.present? }
regular_attachments = attachments - inline_attachments
regular_attachments.each do |mail_attachment|
attachment = message.attachments.new(
account_id: conversation.account_id,
file_type: 'file'
)
attachment.file.attach(mail_attachment[:blob])
end
message.save!
end
```
</details>
- Ensure existing contact information is updated on data import
- Refactor the existing job to make it more readable
- Fixes issues with import files in the wrong encoding
fixes: #7307
Configuring an agent email also as a support email inbox leads to conversations getting created in a loop if notifications were also configured to the same email.
For emails forwarded from google groups, Google rewrites the FROM address to the group email and the original email will be available under X-Original-Sender. This PR enables chatwoot to handle this case.
Fixes: #2715
if chatwoot receives an email of already existing contact with a different case say "Care@example.com", before this fix, it will throw an error. Now it will retrieve existing contact
Fixes: #2553
Co-authored-by: Sojan Jose <sojan@pepalo.com>
* fix: Add a default email subject line if no subject is present
* Add a default on the frontend
Co-authored-by: Muhsin Keloth <muhsinkeramam@gmail.com>
* feat: added support mailbox to handle email channel (#140)
Added a new mailbox called 'SupportMailbox' to handle all the
incoming emails other than reply emails.
An email channel will have a support email and forward email
associated with it. So we filter for the right email inbox based on
the support email of that inbox and route this to this mailbox.
This mailbox finds the account, inbox, contact (create a new one
if it does not exist) and creates a conversation and adds the
email content as the first message in the conversation.
Other minor things handled in this commit:
* renamed the procs for routing emails in application mailbox
* renamed ConversationMailbox to ReplyMailbox
* Added a fallback content in MailPresenter
* Added a record saving (bang) versions of enabling and disabling
features in Featurable module
* added new factory for the email channel
refs: #140
* Chore: Change the prefix in reply emails
In conversation continuity the reply to email was looking like
reply+to+{some_random_hex_id}@reply.chatwoot.com
Changed the prefix to just `reply` instead of `reply+to`.
* Chore: Change reply email prefix in outbound emails
Changed the prefix from `reply+to+` to just `reply+` in
the reply emails in the converstaion related outbound emails.
* Added POC for mail inbox reply email
* created mailbox and migratuion for the same
* cleaned up sidekiq queues and added the queues for action mailbox and active storage
* created conversation mailbox and functionlaity to create a message on the conversation when it's replied
* Added UUID to conversation to be used in email replies
* added migration to add uuid for conversation
* changed parsing and resource fetching to reflect matching uuid and
loading conversation alone
* cleaned up conversation mailbox.rb
* Added content type & attribute for message
* Added the new reply email to outgoing emails
* Added migration to accounts for adding domain and settings
* Modified seeds to reflect this changes
* Added the flag based column on account for boolean settings
* Added the new reply to email in outgoing conversation emails based on conditions
* Added dynamic email routing in application mailbox
* Added dynamic email routing in application mailbox
* Added a catch all deafult empty mailbox
* Added annotation for account
* Added the complete email details & attachments to the message
* Added the complete email details to the message in content_attributes, like subject, to, cc, bcc etc
* Modified the mail extractor to give a serilaized version of email
* Handled storing attachments of email on the message
* Added incoming email settings, env variables
* [#138] Added documentation regarding different email settings and variables
* Fixed the mail attachments blob issue (#138)
* Decoided attachments were strings and had to construct blobs out fo them to work with active storage
* Fixed the content encoding issue with mail body
* Fixed issue with Proc used in apllication mailbox routing
* Fixed couple of typos and silly mistakes
* Set appropriate from email for conversation reply mails (#138)
* From email was taken from a env variable, changed it to take from account settings if enabled
* Set the reply to email correctly based on conversation UUID
* Added commented config ind development.rb for mailbox ingress
* Added account settings for domain and support email (#138)
* Added the new attributes in accounts controller params whitelisting, api responses
* Added options for the the new fields in account settings
* Fixed typos in email continuity docs and warnings
* Added specs for conversation reply mailer changes (#138)
* Added specs for
* conversation reply mailer
* Accounts controller
* Account and Conversation models
* Added tests for email presenter (#138)
* Specs for inbound email routing and mailboxes (#138)
