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Can anyone comment how this compares to context.io? (which also appeared on HN) http://context.io http://context.io It seems to me that the analogy "Twilio fo
by jessedhillon 15y ago
Can anyone comment how this compares to context.io? (which also appeared on HN)
http://context.io http://context.io
It seems to me that the analogy "Twilio for email" works better when applied to context.io, which aims to give a uniform API to all mailbox operations.
- mtw 15y agocontext.io turns mailboxes into databases you can tap into. They are especially good with attachments. is there an API call to send or receive email with context.io? I am not sure. from what I get, mailgun makes it easy to send/receive emails, so that email is a completely integrated feature of your web app, meaning users won't even have to check their email, the experience is all within the app. You can also do it the other way around with mailgun, which is interacting with the user in his email client, so he doesn't have to go in the app.
- sjsjsj 15y agoHey guys, it's Sarah-Jane, Community Manager at Context.IO. Yup, you got it. We don't host dedicated mailboxes that your application can receive and send emails from, but since we make the contents of any IMAP account available to your app, whatever is received in that account is like your app receiving it. For the sending part, we're leaving that to Mailgun and other services that focus on this.
- mtw 15y agohey Sarah-Jane, the reply above was from me heri from @mtw