EmailEngine is a self-hosted application that opens IMAP and SMTP connections against registered email accounts to translate API requests to IMAP commands, send emails, and monitor changes on these accounts. It sends a webhook for every update on the account.

When I wanted to build a Cordova-based email app I realized that handling email protocol stuff inside the app makes things too difficult. So I built EmailEngine, a self-hosted API server to translate REST to IMAP/SMTP.

@andrisreinman Very cool! I think this would work with protonmail mail, is that correct? Would this break the privacy/security of protonmail in any way?

@andrisreinman @guytaylor88 ProtonMail does not have native IMAP support but you would be able to pair it with ProtonMail’s IMAP bridge.

@andrisreinman @andrisreinman1 @guytaylor88 It's unlikely to work with a the proton bridge since the bridge must run on a local machine since it's basically the middleman specific to the proton account. You would also need to have a paid package to have access to the bridge. Lastly, each instance of the bridge is designed to listen on 127.0.0.1 only, so to have it listen to 0.0.0.0, you would either need to rebuild the source code, or like me, using HAproxy or Tailscale serve to have it relay it back to the machine running the bridge natively or in a docker container. Just make sure to change security to SSL/TLS instead of STARTTLS.

well done, congrats on the launch

Really solid email delivery backend

sanaa univirsty yemen old city

TL;DR if you're building an email app or service, you have just likely found the answer to speeding up your development significantly. I've been using it for 6 months now (albeit in dev). They put out frequent updates, and it's especially easy to get running in several ways (all in docs but I use Digital Ocean and it's less than 5 minutes to get set up). I have yet to get my app verified by Google which I think is the biggest hurdle ahead of me, but having Email Engine will only help me clear that hurdle. Finding this project sped up my (solo) development by at least 12 months. I will forever be grateful that I found the founder's/lead engineer's response to help a stranger first and _then_ pitch the business. Also, they're very engaging on Github. And even when I'm totally in the wrong, they're kind when they point it out.

Really solid email delivery backend

sanaa univirsty yemen old city

EmailEngine

Access any email account to receive/send emails with an API

Access any email account to receive/send emails with an API

EmailEngine

Access any email account to receive/send emails with an API

Access any email account to receive/send emails with an API

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