email-microservice

email-microservice

gRPC based emailing service for microservice based architecture.

Methods

SendEmail

Send Standard emails with following parameters:

• Recipients Recipients - List of recipients
• Subject string - Subject of the email
• Body string - Email body
• ContentType string: If text/html then HTML otherwise Plain text.
• Attachments Attachment - Attachments to be sent with email.

Example

SendRawEmail

Send Raw RFC822 based emails:

• Recipients [string] - List of recipients
• Body Bytes - Email body

Example

SendEmailWithTemplate

Send Templated emails (templates should exist beforehand):

• Recipients Recipients - List of recipients
• Subject string - Subject of the email
• TemplateName string - Name of the template
• Attachments Attachment - Attachments to be sent with email.
• TemplateParams map(string -> string) - Template data to be used in the template.

Example

Usage

As a service

Environment Variables

SMTP_HOST:                  SMTP host
SMTP_PORT:                  SMTP port
SMTP_SENDER:                SMTP user
SMTP_PASSWORD:              SMTP password
PORT:                       Port to listen on
PROMETHEUS_PORT:            Port to expose metrics on

Flags

  -disableEmail
        disable email sending
  -help
        show help
  -port int
        port to listen (default 5555)
  -prometheusPort int
        port to listen for prometheus (default 9090)
  -smtpEmail string
        SMTP email
  -smtpHost string
        SMTP host
  -smtpPassword string

Templates

For templates to be used in the email, they should be stored in the ./templates directory relative to the binary. Naming scheme for files is <template_name>.html, where template_name is the name of the template to be used by the client.

Templated are parsed using html/template package.

• {{.}} - prints the value of the variable

For docker, workdir in /app, hence, templates should be stored in /app/templates directory.

Docker

docker run -d --name email-microservice --env-file app.env -p 5555:5555 crossphoton/email-microservice

Kubernetes

TODO

Locally

1. Clone the repository
2. After setting up the environment variables, run go run main.go

As a client

See examples in the examples directory.

Generate the client code using the proto file email.proto

In examples directory run ./gen_proto.sh

Additional Parts

• Prometheus : Port 9090 is exposed for Prometheus metrics. Can be changed using environment variable.
• Logging - go.uber.org/zap is used for logging.
• GRPC Middleware - validation, prometheus, zap

TODO

• Tracing
• Graceful shutdown

License

GNU General Public License v3.0

Types

Recipients

Recipients:

• To [string] - Recipient email address
• Cc [string] - Carbon copy email address
• Bcc [string] - Blind carbon copy email address

Name <address> formatting is supported.

Attachment

Attachment:

• base64data string - Base64 encoded data of attachment.
• filename string - Name of attachment.

Dependencies

• simple-email-service
• gRPC
• protobuf
• prometheus
• go-grpc-prometheus