How difficult to build an email module?

Hi folks,

I would like to have an email frontend for an app I am building so that all users can send/receive emails directly through the app and also so I can create standard templates to be used for the users. I had a look around but there doesn’t yet seem to be one built in for Yii2.

As this is something I have never done before, I was hoping I could get some input from other developers as to the complexity of the task. Is this going to be a massive project? I would imagine the frontend would not be particularly complex as we are all familiar with email functionality but I am not entirely surely about the backend/db for this. Although (and I might just be being a little too optimistic here), I am sure I can find suggested schemas etc if I look around.

Am I being foolish here? How hard is this going to be? It would seem a very useful module to have… with that in mind, would anyone like to join forces to create it?

Thanks,

U4EA

This task would probably not be easy to implement in a robust manner, but you might be able to use this:

If you hook your application up with Mailgun or Mandrill, it would be much more secure and reliable, but if you set up the right MX / SPF records on your mail host, then the chances of being flagged as a spammer and/or hacked by hackers will be minimized.

Using both Mandrill and Mailgun it is possible to configure inbound email addresses to be routed to an URL of your choice.

That would probably be a console controller action in your app, and then just parse the POST.

Outbound emails are easier.

Thanks, I will take a look into that extension.