Receive Emails in Next.js with Hisend (the painless way)

Let’s be honest: Sending emails via API is a solved problem. But receiving them? That’s usually an absolute nightmare. Most email providers give you a webhook that forces you to parse raw multipart/alternative data, or they make you chain three separate API requests just to get the email body, the sender's name, and a download link for the attachments. I got so frustrated with this terrible Developer Experience that I built Hisend ( @hisend/sdk ). It’s an EU-hosted email relay that gives you the entire parsed email—including sender details and attachments—in one clean webhook payload (or a single API fetch). Here is how you can set up incoming emails in a Next.js App Router project in less than 5 minutes. Step 1: Set up the Domain & Routing in the Hisend Panel Before our Next.js app can receive anything, we need to tell Hisend to listen for incoming emails and where to forward them. Register & Add Domain: Go to hisend.app , create a project, and add your domain (e.g., yourdomain.com ).