I'm building an email system using Flask and React, and I want to set up SMTP for sending emails and IMAP for receiving them. I found some open-source solutions like Poste.io and Mailu, but I’m not sure how to configure and integrate them properly into my project.
What I Want to Do: -Send emails using SMTP. -Receive emails using IMAP. -Test everything locally before making it external.
How do I integrate a mail server (like Mailu/Poste.io) with Flask and React? And can i test it in localhost first?
I'm building an email system using Flask and React, and I want to set up SMTP for sending emails and IMAP for receiving them. I found some open-source solutions like Poste.io and Mailu, but I’m not sure how to configure and integrate them properly into my project.
What I Want to Do: -Send emails using SMTP. -Receive emails using IMAP. -Test everything locally before making it external.
How do I integrate a mail server (like Mailu/Poste.io) with Flask and React? And can i test it in localhost first?
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Reset to default 0Just follow the installation instructions for the server you choose. When you've done that you'll also know how to connect to it using Flask (React will connect to your Flask code).
You can test to some degree. Your local host probably doesn't have IPv6, right? So sending yourself mail from gmail will be difficult to arrange. But you can do most testing easily even with IPv4, more than 50% of what you need anyway, and use mocks for the rest. Mocks are good.