Email integration

[tonyblank]

First iteration of an email integration. A user can send an email to Taarifa with

subject: status
body:
<waterpoint_id>
<0 for not functional, 1 for functional>

example:

subject:
status
body:
0202309906WP03
1

[kynan]

This looks quite sensible to me. How would an end-to-end workflow look like? Were you planning to use context.io for that?

[tonyblank]

Yes, planning on using Sendgrid to send transactional emails as feedback
from the emails sent to Taarifa - success/failure - if failure, then
feedback + help on what went wrong. In most cases, I'd imagine it'd be
syntax of the email sent. Next steps will be to implement that, with a sort
of "online" help..

My thoughts are you could send an email with a subject of "help" and get a
single email with an overview of the various actions supported.

Or you could send an email with a subject and if the body is "help" then
you'd just get back a detailed email on precisely how to use that specific
action. For what I built this weekend, the "status" action - where you can
simply create a request to change the "functional/not functional" status of
a water point, you could send an email with a subject of "status" and a
body of "help" and get back instructions on the format of the body to
update that action.