Mail Client

This is a simple email client application with a RESTful API backend written in Go. It supports multiple email providers, with current implementation focused on ProtonMail

!!This is a work in progress

Goal

The overall goal of this project is to make a feature rich and extensible email client backend that can be used to aggregate all email services in one frontend.

Future Features

• RESTful API for email operations
• Support for multiple email providers through SMTP and IMAP protocols and specific Google, ProtonMail, and Microsoft Exchange implementations
• JWT-based authentication
• Email listing, viewing, and sending

Prerequisites

• Go 1.16 or higher

Installation:

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/gituser12981u2/mailclient.git

cd mailclient

2. Install dependencies:

go mod tidy

3. Create a config.json file in the project root with the following structure:

{
    "server_address": ":8080",
    "provider:" "proton",
    "provider_config": {
        "username": "your_protonmail_username",
        "password": "your_protonmail_password"
    },
    "jwt_secret": "your_jwt_secret"
}

Running the Application

To start the server, run:

go run main.go

API Endpoints

• GET /api/v1/emails: List emails
• GET /api/v1/emails/:id: Get a specific email
• POST /api/v1/emails: Send a new email

Project Structure

• main.go: Entry point of the application
• internal/: Contains the core application code
  • api/: API-related code including route setup
  • config/: Configuration loading and management
  • models/: Data models
  • providers/: Email provider implementations
  • services/: Business logic services

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Please feel free to sumbit a Pull Request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.