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How inbound email processing works, EU compliance, and building privacy-first infrastructure.
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View all →Inbound email processing for GDPR compliance
Every email you receive is personal data, so the service that parses it is your processor under the GDPR. Where it runs, who owns it and how long it keeps mail decide whether you are compliant.
7 min readWhat is inbound email processing?
Inbound email processing turns the email people and systems send you into structured data: a service receives the message, parses it, and posts it as JSON to a webhook in your application.
7 min readWhy businesses automate email first
Email is often the best first process to automate: the requests already arrive there, nothing changes for the people who send them, and one flow is small enough to try and easy to undo.
4 min readAnalysis
View all →The European tech stack in 2026
For most B2B software and digital businesses, mature European options now exist at every layer, from hosting to payments to monitoring. This is the stack EmailConnect runs on, and where I chose to compromise.
8 min readNIS2 and email infrastructure
The NIS2 Directive expands EU cybersecurity requirements to many more businesses. What it means for how you handle email, and what to ask of your email vendors.
8 min read2025: The sovereign cloud reality check
In 2025 Microsoft told French senators it cannot guarantee that EU customer data stays out of reach of US authorities. An EU data centre run by a US company does not take your data out of US jurisdiction; who owns the provider does.
6 min readReady to process inbound email with full EU compliance?
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