Mail Listener

Listens for new mail on your IMAP server and perform POST request to a webhook URL. Its like any mail client but can help your startup a lot through webhooks

Environment variables needed:

You can format the given information into a Markdown table like this:

Variable	Value	Description
PASSWORD	Password	password of imap server
USERNAME	user@example.com	username of imap server
HOST	imap.example.com	host of imap server
PORT	993	port of imap server
WEBHOOK_URL	http://127.0.0.1:3000	Webhook send request to

Webhook request format

Variable	Description	Possible Values
attachments	This variable holds the attachments from the incoming mail.	Array of attachments or Absent (field not present)
html	This variable holds the HTML content of the incoming mail.	HTML string or false (for non-HTML emails)
text	This variable holds the text content of the incoming mail.	Text string
from	This variable holds the sender's address of the incoming mail.	Email string
to	This variable holds the recipient's address of the incoming mail.	Email string
data	An object containing html, text, from, and to values.	Object

Docker usage

Please note that this image doesn't need any open ports to run and hence the docker image is without EXPOSE. Open your favorite terminal and use the following

docker pull n1rjal/mail-listener .
# make a suitable .env file and start firing
docker run --env-file=.env --name mail-listener-local .

Development Usage

git clone https://github.com/n1rjal/mail-listener.git
cd mail-listener

## Setup environment variables
pnpm install
pnpm dev

Future Features

1. Publish to SQS Queue
2. Publish to RABBITMQ exchange