Lillian Thuram

To associate an email with a contact in a CRM built with Rails, you can use an email library like mail or the Gmail API to fetch emails via POP3/IMAP. Once the email is retrieved, you can extract key details like the sender's address and papers, please match it with an existing contact, or create a new contact if necessary. The email can then be stored in the database with a reference to the contact, either by adding a contact_id in the email model or using a join table. Many applications use APIs like Gmail’s to sync emails with contacts automatically by matching email addresses.