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May 02, 2021

At the time of writing this, the heading above my blog section reads, ”I write to clear my thoughts!“. So, it might seem hypocritical that I’m creating a mailing list. To be honest, it is a little hypocritical, but the real reason is “I love to bounce off ideas”. I like to put my ideas to the ”Agni Pariksha” because only the strongest ideas should survive.

Other than clearing my thoughts, this blog serves a secondary purpose. I use it to try out new learnings as much as possible. So, I built my newsletter from scratch, and I’m not using any mailing services. And I have designed it in such a way that it scales to the moon 🚀 at $0*.

It took three weekends to complete this. It would have taken just two weekends if I knew from the start that firebase functions are no longer free. I learned a lot of new stuff. Especially, SMTP(Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). And non-contrary to its name, it’s pretty simple. It goes like this:

Sender Server -> Everything cool?
Mail Server -> Everything cool.
Sender Server -> Are these (address 1, address2, ...) cool?
Mail Server -> They are cool.
Sender Server -> Here's the email (from, to, subject, body)
Sender Server -> End, Bye.
Mail Server -> Bye.

It’s not that hard to set up an SMTP server. But I did not set up a server because it was not necessary, at least not right now. Click here to find out the complete breakdown of the project.

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