meherhendi/email-project

Email project

this project is written in Angular and Nestjs frameworks and uses Localstack to emulate AWS's SES (Simple Email Service)

instructions to run the project:

prerequisites

port 80,3000 and 4566 must be available for containers to work

steps to run the project

• 1- create .env file cp backend/.env.example backend/.env

• 2- spin up the containers docker-compose up

• 3- open a bash terminal in the localstack container docker exec -it /bin/bash

• 4- create an IAM user called test awslocal iam create-user --user-name test

• 5- get access key for the user awslocal iam create-access-key --user-name test

• 6- get the credentials generated and add them to your backend/.env file

• 7- verify emails in Localstack's SES (verification is necessary) awslocal ses verify-email-identity --email-address sender@example.com

awslocal ses verify-email-identity --email-address receiver@example.com

• 8- send a mock-up email awslocal ses send-email
  --from sender@example.com
  --message 'Body={Text={Data="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, ..."}},Subject={Data=Test Email}'
  --destination 'ToAddresses=receiver@example.com'

• 9- open http://localhost/ and log in username: john password: changeme

** features **

used localstack ses service email obscured in the interface user can see a list of emails and select an email to view user can only reply once to emails he received