Netlify
Email to Netlify,
the easy way
ForwardThis is the simple tool that connects your email to Netlify. Forward any email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Nothing to download, nothing to set up. Works with dozens of your other apps too.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Connect Netlify
Create a free account and connect Netlify. It takes about 30 seconds, and you only do it once.
Forward an email
Forward any email to your ForwardThis address along with your instructions. One email can ask for several things at once.
Done.
ForwardThis replies when it's done, with a short summary and links to what it made. Netlify has no way to take these back, so anything that cannot be reversed is shown to you first.
Just forward it
to do@forwardthis.io
Fwd: The new pricing copy still isn't live
Check the last few deploys of harbourside-web, and if the latest one failed, start a fresh build.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
I signed off the pricing wording on Friday but the site is still showing the old numbers. Is something stuck?
Read harbourside-web deploys
Latest failed 2 days ago · main · build script exited with 1
Started a build of harbourside-web
main · published 1m 12s later
ForwardThis checks with you before it starts a build. It cannot be undone afterwards.
Some other examples
- “What sites are on the account, and when did each last publish?”
- “Why did the last harbourside-web build fail?”
- “Rebuild the marketing site.”
Everything ForwardThis can do in Netlify
Look up records
Find sites, forms, form submissions or deploys
Read a record
Read a site's deploys, or one deploy in full
Create task
Trigger a deploy
Delete task
Cancel a running build
Update CRM record
Roll back to a previous deploy, or lock and unlock the published one
Try it with a real email.
Forward any work email to the address below and see what ForwardThis can do. No signup required.
Occasional product emails may follow.
Why you need ForwardThis
Email is messy, every message asking for something different. It means constantly leaving your inbox and juggling tabs. ForwardThis skips all of that: forward an email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Compatible with every email provider, and it works across the apps you’re already using.
Questions
- How do I send an email to Netlify?
- Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with a line saying what you need, like "why did the last harbourside-web build fail?". It reads the deploys and replies with the answer, and if you've asked for a fresh build it shows you the site and the branch first and runs it when you say yes. The first time, you'll need a free account with Netlify connected, which takes about 30 seconds - that's the entire Netlify email integration.
- Can it trigger a deploy from an email?
- Yes, and it always asks first. The approval names the site and the branch, because a build publishes whatever is sitting on that branch at that moment, which is not always what you had in mind when the client emailed you about a typo.
- Can it tell me why a build failed?
- Yes. Ask about a site and it comes back with the recent deploys: what state each one is in, which branch it came from, how long it took, and the error where one failed. That's usually enough to know whether you're rebuilding or opening your editor.
- Can it roll back to an earlier deploy?
- No. Restoring an old deploy is publishing old code, and that's a call you make looking at what changed, not from your phone on a train. Environment variables, build settings, DNS and deleting a site are all out too, for the same reason: they're the sort of change you want to be sitting down for.
- Is there an undo if it builds something I didn't want?
- No, which is why it asks first. Once a build has published, visitors have seen the new site, and no button here can un-see that. Asking what's deployed and why a build failed changes nothing at all, so those just answer.