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EmailEngine

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Email is the hardest easy problem, and I built a business in it

Email is the hardest easy problem, and I built a business in it

A follow-up to turning EmailEngine from open source into a business: the revenue grew, but the real work turned out to be fighting the endless swamp of email provider quirks.

Tailing webhooks

If you run an application that produces a lot of webhooks like EmailEngine, you might want to observe what kind of data is even sent before you try to start consuming it. This post shows an easy way to do this with PHP. The concept is simple. Your webhooks producer

Packaging and selling a Node.js app

Packaging and selling a Node.js app

I sell a downloadable server software called EmailEngine. EmailEngine, when started, runs a simple web server that serves a dashboard and an API. If you'd provide credentials of any email account to EmailEngine, it will open an IMAP session to that account and continuously index it. EmailEngine would

Tracking deleted messages on an IMAP account

While it is pretty easy to get the current snapshot state of a mailbox, and it is not hard to track new emails coming in, one particular change is usually quite challenging to follow. That is message deletions.