Sending email notifications is a functional requirement of the ScholarX Platform. @YohanAvishke@Gravewalker@piumal1999 Do you already have any plan on implementation?
I just went through some available Email APIs and came up with the following findings:
Sendgrid
Free quota: 100/day
Java Library: Yes
Mailgun
Free quota: 5000/month but valid only for 3 months
Java Library: Yes
I saw this issue on the frontend repo. I think the emails shouldn’t be handled from the front end, but need to send it through the backend.
Downsides of having it on the frontend:
A simple mistake that happens from the frontend might jam everything. (Ex. Reloading the page while sending emails)
The mail credentials will be exposed to the frontend, which means someone can send emails as scholarX by doing some tweaks.
Usually these frontend emails clients are being used for implementations such as contact forms.
That’s interesting.
However, the problem is whether we are sending emails from the frontend or the backend.
PS:
Environment variables are secure if and if only they are accessible from the backend.
Also, we have the downsides I described earlier.
yeah, I made a mistake with that library also. We need to create an API for that as well. I have use it with NextJs which allows you to create API’s within the frontend so our only option is going with the backend.
+1 for spring-boot-starter-mail because it is independent of the service provider that we are going to use. Also, we could create a Google application password from our own accounts to test the application.
@YohanAvishke@anjisvj@Gravewalker How do we plan to execute the development of this task. How long will it take to have this functionality?
These are the functional requirements:
mentor_selection → mentee_application
Sending email notifications to the mentors with their status (approved or rejected)
mentee_application to mentee_selection
Sending email notifications to the selected mentors with a reminder to check their mentees. (no need to display mentees on the email at this stage)
Mentee_selection → Mentee_confirmation
Sending email notifications to the mentees who have been approved by multiple mentors with a reminder to pick their mentors (no need to display mentors at this stage)
Mentee_Confirmation → Ongoing
Sending email notifications to the mentors to check out their mentees. (sending the dashboard link would be sufficient. No need to list mentees)
Sending email notifications to the mentees to check out their mentor.
These emails don’t need to be fancy HTML emails at this stage. Having a plain text email is enough at this stage. We can improve it over time.
Configuring it to work with google application password seems easier for testing. Define it as in the application.property file
These are the things that came into my mind at the moment. Please update the thread with your own suggestions.
