Self-Hosted Email Server Project TODO List

General Rules:

• First-name is title case.
• Everything else is lowercase.
• Dates are processed as strings and only refer to that day and not the time of day.
• Dates are in the format YYYY-MM-DD.
• Scheduled e-mails are sent at noon.
• Course e-mails are sent at midnight.
• All e-mails are sent in the timezone of the server.
• E-mails missed before the date are sent at the next scheduled time.
• At the end of the course, the course is added as a tag "course course-name" to subscriber.
• Courses in MongoDB are lowercase but are displayed as title case.

TODO

1. Create frontend

• Subscribe to newsletter form
• Subscriber list delete/tag-up form
• E-mail writing form input
• Written e-mails saving form
• Broadcast to tag form
• Automatic scheduler in front-end

2. Create subscriber class

• MongoDB Documents
• Subscribers collection, subscriber document:

{
  "name": "",
  "username": "",
  "email": "",
  "password": "",
  "email-subscribers": {
    "email-example@gmail.com": {
      "first-name": "John"
    }
  },
  "tags": {
    "tag-example": [
      "email-example@gmail.com",
      "john@gmail.com",
      "jane@gmail.com"
    ]
  },
  "scheduled": [
    {
      "date": "2020-01-01",
      "tag": "tag-example",
      "subject": "Subject",
      "body": "Body"
    },
    {
      "date": "2020-01-08",
      "tag": "tag-example",
      "subject": "Subject",
      "body": "Body"
    }
  ],
  "daily-courses": [
    {
      "course-name1": {
        "emails": [
          {
            "subject": "Subject",
            "body": "Body"
          },
          {
            "subject": "Subject",
            "body": "Body"
          }
        ],
        "stages": {
          "1": [
            "John@gmail.com",
            "Jane@gmail.com"
          ],
          "2": [
            "Peter@gmail.com",
            "Joe@gmail.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "course-name2": {
        "emails": [
          {
            "subject": "Subject",
            "body": "Body"
          },
          {
            "subject": "Subject",
            "body": "Body"
          }
        ],
        "stages": {
          "1": [
            "John@gmail.com",
            "Jane@gmail.com"
          ],
          "2": [
            "Peter@gmail.com",
            "Joe@gmail.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "pre-written_emails": {
    "template-name1": {
      "subject": "Subject line",
      "body": "E-mail formatted body"
    },
    "template-name2": {
      "subject": "Subject line",
      "body": "E-mail formatted body"
    }
  }
}

5. Create user authentication with each user being a customer

• Try https://github.com/aliyusahaboadam/Registration-and-Login-Application
• Filter homepage, signup & login only clickable by being logged in with Spring security
• Make every other page redirect to login
• Test all security updates
• Create email and username unique on register
• Check if CustomErrorController is needed

6. Create user authentication part 2

• Create Sign-up page for creating customers
• Create Login page with signup link
• Make Spring use Mongo Customers to login
• Test forgot password
• Create Forgot password form on the same page as login. Use a separate post request.
• Create temporary password on wrong password to email from newsletter
• Do a check if the temp password is correct and manually login

8: Create Newsletter API

• Subscribe
• Unsubscribe
• Broadcast
• Add empty tag
• Add delete tag
• Rename title
• Rename owner
• Rename email
• Rename password
• Delete newsletter

Test all easy endpoints

• Subscribe
• Unsubscribe
• Add email to tag
• Remove email from tag
• Test custom newsletter email
• Broadcast, create username map
• Add empty tag
• Add delete tag
• Rename title
• Rename owner
• Rename email
• Rename password

9. Create a React Typescript frontend for the above API

• Setup React Typescript
• Setup one run for backend and frontend
• Start on Material UI template
• Add basic backend functions to frontend

10. Create difficult functionality

1. Delete newsletter
2. Add scheduled e-mail
3. Save and write email MIME
4. Add/update course

11: Create automation backend

• Send scheduled e-mails at noon
• Check daily course e-mails at midnight
• Courses follow document stages

12 Update to latest

• Update to the latest Gradle
• Update to the latest Spring Boot and Java 21
• Create email list exporter for other services
• Create a backup system