search

mailpile / Mailpile

A free & open modern, fast email client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features
https://mailpile.is
Other
8.81k stars 1.02k forks source link

Mailpile 2 : Open Source HTTP E-Mail API? #711

Closed almereyda closed 10 years ago

almereyda commented 10 years ago

Having no easily deployable Open Source E-Mail API available, I wonder if the project could scale to dimensions like Mailgun, Mailchimp, SendGrid or Mandrill.

Or should I start to write one in Node?

bnvk commented 10 years ago

Hi @almereyda I'm not sure what exactly what your goals are. The services you mentioned each do multiple specific things relating to email. Those companies have massive customer bases and infrastructure that has grown to scale over years- they've surely done tons of custom engineering to meet those demands. I doubt you'll find any software package that out-of-the-box is able to deliver that level of scalability.

That said, the core of Mailpile might be useful towards some of your goals. The backend of Mailpile can be run without the web UI interface. So, you could setup Mailpile on machine that has a receiving mail server, then setup Mailpile to scan the downloaded mail, and then expose that mail via HTTP as a JSON REST API is at the core of how Mailpile.

I'm going to close this issue as it's more of a conversation and less of a bug / feature. I am in Berlin this whole month working from cafes if you were interested in meeting up and chatting about Mailpile!

almereyda commented 9 years ago

@bnvk Basically I meant something like https://cuttlefish.oaf.org.au/ but also what you mentionned in your second paragraph.

It would also be interesting to research how that integrates into @elf-pavlik's efforts to store email in a LevelGraph and later any RDF graph.