email notifications

[zhammer]

i want to receive email alerts that keep me engaged with stories.

emails:

• a friend starts a story with me as a cowriter
• a friend takes a turn on a story i'm involved with
• special notice if it's my turn

i want to be able to specify email preferences

requirements:

• i'd like to do some sort of email verification, with states like "requested, awaiting user response,

impl:

• heroku has sendgrid integration
• could verification be as simple as: i sign a user's email with a timeout and send that as a token? then decrypt the token and if it hasn't expired and matches user's email, we're approved?
• this is a first moment of seeing limitations / potential of cypress as sole e2e test suite. could i spin up a mock server that handles email requests on test runs?
• would probably want to use heroku kafka for sending messages async

tasks:

• [ ] setup message queue announcement fanout to allow for queues to subscribe

[zhammer]

email jobs: initiated success failed cancelled