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EmailEngine, an alternative for Nylas Email API

EmailEngine, an alternative for Nylas Email API

From time to time, people who are looking for alternatives to their current email API vendor, usually Nylas, ask if EmailEngine could be a replacement. Both provide easier access to email accounts via an API. Is EmailEngine cheaper, maybe a more limited version of Nylas?

Proxying OAuth2 IMAP connections for Outlook and Gmail

Proxying OAuth2 IMAP connections for Outlook and Gmail

All larger email providers are slowly but steadily moving away from regular password-based authentication for email protocols like IMAP and SMTP. There are multiple options to do so. For example, iCloud requires you to generate application passwords for IMAP. Gmail is pushing OAuth2, even though it also allows application passwords.

Threading with EmailEngine

Threading with EmailEngine

In a previous blog post, we discussed how email threads are typically managed on the client side, as virtual entities. Previous attempts to define server-side threading, such as the RFC5256 standard, were mainly useful for mailing-list type threads, assuming that all related emails were located in the same folder. This

Measuring Inbox/Spam placement

Measuring Inbox/Spam placement

One common use case for syncing an IMAP mailbox with EmailEngine is to measure if emails are going to INBOX (in Gmail's case, to the primary or promotions tab) or to the Spam folder. This way, we can send test emails to that account and see what the

IDs explained

If you have used EmailEngine for a while, you probably notice the abundance of different message identifiers. There's id, emailId, uid, messageId , and under the hood also a sequence identifier that all seemingly do the same thing – identify an email on an IMAP account. What gives, why so

Mailbox locking in ImapFlow

ImapFlow library allows to open folders in an IMAP account via two different methods, that are mailboxOpen(path) and getMailboxLock(path). What is the actual difference and why would you need something like that?

Tracking email replies

Reply tracking is useful when building integrations with users’ email accounts. Let’s say our service sends out emails as if these were sent by the user, eg. automated sales emails, and now the recipient replies to such message.

Tracking deleted messages on an IMAP account

While it is pretty easy to get the current snapshot state of a mailbox, and it is not hard to track new emails coming in, one particular change is usually quite challenging to follow. That is message deletions.