A website to display all Postgres emails.
This is a small POC to transform the Postgres mailing lists more readable.
As a comparison:
The idea of postgres.email is to make all responses threaded, like the comments on HN or Reddit.
This uses an imap Foreign Data Wrapper to ingest the messages into a Postgres database. For the POC, only ingested 1000 messages, and it doesn't display attachments.
The technologies used are:
- Gmail to receive the email
- Steampipe for the FDW: https://hub.steampipe.io/plugins/turbot/imap
- Supabase for the Postgres database / APIs: https://supabase.com
- Remix for the frontend: https://remix.run/
Given the size of the mailing lists, I doubt the current approach will scale much further than the POC, so I'll need to re-think the architecture. I'll probably keep the emails in gmail and and leverage the FDW for older messages.
Some things I'd like to do next:
- explore alternative architectures
- show attachments
- add a REST API
- add search - the size of the mailing lists might make this difficult
- allow readers to toggle on a "markdown" view. Often authors use markdown syntax in their emails
- add a light mode
To run your Remix app locally, make sure your project's local dependencies are installed:
npm installAfterwards, start the Remix development server like so:
supabase start
npm run devOpen up http://localhost:3000 and you should be ready to go!