Implement email service for sending emails

[growupanand]

For sending emails (Promotional, Feature updates etc) to our users, we need to implement email service.

• [ ] #255
• [ ] #265
• [ ] Implement Email Sending Logic
• [ ] Add terms & conditions in signup page

[Tomkndn]

Hey, looks interesting to me I want to work on this project. But I need to know the brief description of the issue. Upto now i understood for sending emails I will use Nodemailer and using this we can create email templates and send emails. is this right? or anything I'm missing?

[growupanand]

You are right, here is the brief description.

Currently, if you use WebApp, there is no email service in it that sends emails to users (execpt from the clerk authentication provider itself). We want to send emails to users to interact with them. Below are some cases where I want to send emails to users:

Related to the platform

• Take user feedback about their experience on the platform after he have used the product (E.g after a week)
• Send a changelog whenever I release a new version on GitHub and a screenshot of the new features with a brief description

Related to the data

• when a new form submission done
• Updates on usage limit of free plan
• Export all form submissions (in a file) and send over email
• Send analytics

You can use Nodemailer or any better option if available, Let me know your plan and we can discuss for this.

[Tomkndn]

I think Nodemailer will be the great option. Basically when a user submits a form , the form should be sent to the user via email is the main motivation? As because updates on plan, exporting a file, analytics should be monthly otherwise the user will be frustated.

[growupanand]

Yes, so we can set schedules for the types of emails, like weekly, monthly, etc. But we will implement this whole feature divided into subtasks, which I mention in the description. So right now, we can focus on setting up email infra and service. once we have a service to send email we can decide the schedule later.

Also, are you going to use react-mail for the templates?

[growupanand]

check this one also: https://resend.com/nextjs,

Let me know your plan before you start working on it.

[growupanand]

@Tomkndn assigned to you.

[Tomkndn]

Assigned to me , Looks good. 1st task is to build email infrastructure which includes react-email for email templates. Instead of nodemailer your suggestion is resend okay works fine. My question is when to send email after the submission of forms or any other work.

[growupanand]

Just create a PR for the first task - https://github.com/growupanand/ConvoForm/issues/255, don't worry about the scheduling of sending mail.

[Tomkndn]

I have implemented the email infrastructure. So, I have to raise the PR for #255 issue right? My suggestion is to send email when a new user signup to the website.

[growupanand]

Yes, you can raise the PR for https://github.com/growupanand/ConvoForm/issues/255

[Tomkndn]

What about the signup email and please label the issue under gssoc24 contribution.

[growupanand]

Lets do it step by step. First, create email templates in this issue - https://github.com/growupanand/ConvoForm/issues/265.

Also i am not able to pick your name, can you comment on this issue - https://github.com/growupanand/ConvoForm/issues/255

And gssoc24 is not a valid label, I have assigned gssoc label which is recommended in guidelines of GSSoC.

[Tomkndn]

Should I create a new branch or just do it in the main? Also those 2 issues I have solved should be Raised with 2 different PRs?

[growupanand]

Should I create a new branch or just do it in the main? Also those 2 issues I have solved should be Raised with 2 different PRs?

Since these are are now independant subtasks and we are doing it step by step, you can create seperate branches and PRs for them. After merging the first step PR you can rebase your branch with main branch.

[growupanand]

@Tomkndn, can you please share the status?

[Tomkndn]

We were going to discuss it in discord afterwards, but then you were off.