SES is an incredibly affordable way to build an email heavy application.

However monitoring the emails is a bit of a nightmare, and often requires custom infrastructure. Even setting up the SES -> SNS -> SQS pipeline is a headache for developers unfamiliar with AWS. And when that is done your still left with hooking in or building custom some dashboard for viewing bounces and all the vital information you care about.

00 provides an SST configuration step to set up the SES -> SNS -> SQS pipeline, so you can just run a command and let SST do the rest.

Then 00 provides you that dashboard for viewing the information you care about.

Some key features include:

• Run SST to configure AWS for you.
• The ability to send emails by sending a POST request to /api/emails.
• Monitor email status (with multi-recipient tracking).
• Search emails and messages (a message is created for every recipient).
• View email body.
• Log tracking for requests and queue.

If you like video walkthroughs Web Dev Cody made a fantastic one.

The quickest way to get started is to clone this repo and run sst deploy in it. Make sure to set the EMAIL_IDENTITY env variable first, this will be the email or domain you wish to send from.

Using SST is easy, and you can find the steps to do so here and learn how to configure your credentials here

If you would like to avoid using SST you must manually configure AWS. You need to set up a configuration set to write to an SQS queue via SNS. You can configure it however you want, but the more events you send to the queue the more 00 will be able to track (obviously).

Either option will give you an SQS url which we need, along with several other environment variables.

Currently SST does NOT deploy the container for you. It just sets up the needed SES pipeline.

In the near future you will pass a variable to SST to tell it wether it should host the container for you.

We publish a docker image to the registery

Simply run docker pull liltechnomancer/double-zero

Then run your docker container with the following environment variables set. Exposing port 4000.

Example docker run -it --env-file ./env -p 80:4000 "liltechnomancer/double-zero"

AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
AWS_REGION= # Ex: us-east-1
SQS_URL=  # Ex: https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/${id}

SYSTEM_EMAIL= # For sending stuff like password resets. Ex: test@example.com should be able to send from SES.

SECRET_KEY_BASE= # A long secret. at least 64 characters. Can be made with mix phx.gen.secret or however you generate safe keys.

DATABASE_PATH= # Path to SQLite database Ex: 00.db
PHX_HOST= #  URL or IP of where this service is running. Ex: example.com

Now visit your url (whatever you set PHX_HOST to) and register your user. After registering click on settings to create an API key. Keep this key as you wont be able to see it again and treat it like a password.

Now you can make API requests to send email to yourdomain.com/api/emails.

Here is an example.

{
  "markdown": "# Language Syntax Highlight Demo\n\n## Erlang\n\n```erlang\n-module(tut14).\n\n-export([start/0, say_something/2]).\n\nsay_something(What, 0) ->\n    done;\nsay_something(What, Times) ->\n    io:format('~p~n', [What]),\n    say_something(What, Times - 1).\n\nstart() ->\n    spawn(tut14, say_something, [hello, 3]),\n    spawn(tut14, say_something, [goodbye, 3]).\n```",
  "subject": "Can your email service track multiple recipients?",
  "from": "levi@fidoforms.com",
  "to": ["levi@technomancy.dev", "complaint@simulator.amazonses.com"]
}

Or replace markdown with html

{
  "html": "<h1>Hello world!</h1>",
  "subject": "Can your email service track multiple recipients?",
  "from": "levi@fidoforms.com",
  "to": ["levi@technomancy.dev", "complaint@simulator.amazonses.com"]
}

Add attachments or provider options.

{
  "markdown": "# Hey",
  "subject": "Hark, who goes there?",
  "from": "levi@jamstack.consulting",
  "to": "levi@technomancy.dev",
  "headers": {
     "X-Entity-Ref-ID": "00"
   },
  "provider_options": {
    "tags": [{
      "name": "tag-name",
      "value": "some-value"
    }]
  },
  "attachments": [
    {
      "filename": "invoice.txt",
      "content": "pewp"
    }
  ]
}

Stuck? Tell me about it on Discord and lets unstick you!

If you are eager to support this project you can pre-order a pro version for you to self host.

Planned pro features include

• Multiple Users
• Teams
• Advanced Analytics
• Track email history
• Possibly more, we will see.

To start your Phoenix server:

• Run mix setup to install and setup dependencies
• Start Phoenix endpoint with mix phx.server or inside IEx with iex -S mix phx.server

Now you can visit localhost:4000 from your browser.

Ready to run in production? Please check our deployment guides.

• Official website: https://www.phoenixframework.org/
• Guides: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/overview.html
• Docs: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix
• Forum: https://elixirforum.com/c/phoenix-forum
• Source: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix