MailBlog is a blog that is managed via your Email Inbox and allows you to create and manage your own blog posts by sending an email.
For GMail, Allow Less Secure Apps, If 2FA is turned on, use App password
Follow Similar steps for other E-Mail Providers.
put these values in .env.local file (in root directory of project) or set these values for the hosting provider,
EMAIL=<EMAIL USED FOR BLOG>
PASSWORD=<EMAIL PASSWORD>
DB=postgres://username:password@HOSTNAME/DB_NAME
IMAP_HOST=imap.gmail.com
IMAP_PORT=993update components/config.js file to set metadata for your blog
You can host this blog either as a static website, or a dynamic one, but first, initialize the database,
Use Commands from DB.sql to create a Database for your blog.
npm run devnow go to localhost:3000/api/refresh to fetch emails and update your database, Now you can build,
npm run build
npm run exportNow deploy the out directory to your hosting provider.
The disadvantage is that it only updates blogs while building, thus, you need to repeat this process everytime you want to refresh.
You can host it as a dynamic website, for example, on Vercel, to do so, simply run,
vercel --prodOr if you want to host it on a VPS,
npm run build
npm run startrevalidate is set to 30 minutes (1800 seconds), you can change that in components/config.js, it's the duration after which list updates.
You can also trigger fetching emails by visiting localhost:3000/api/refresh, which will populate the database with new unread emails.
Thank you for your interest in contributing, If you feel like there's something missing or any new feature can be added, just create a PR and I will see the rest.
You can contact me on social media, Everything about me can be found here
- chakra-templates.dev For Blog Templates
Contact me anywhere, just visit my portfolio
This project is licensed under MIT License, See LICENSE for more information
