Email Interface

[shz]

Github/Redmine style email handling (messages, inquiries, etc).

[mattskilly]

p diddy. can this get done this week? this would help us close a deal. people love to email ;) thx dude

[defrex]

One of the huge problems Matt is facing trying to sell items right now is that some users don't want to click in and start using some other system to buy their stuff. Luckily, the way we're re-designed the interface messages are first-class, and everything else flows from them. Emails are messages.

Thus we'd like a flow where email sent from CL users flow into our messaging system. If the seller responds, the CL user gets our standard email-based notification. They can then respond to that notification email directly, which will flow back into Hipsell's messaging.

Effectively, the seller gets the benefits of Hipsell, and the buyer can use email as normal.

[shz]

That makes a ton of sense. I'm going to make this a priority and see if I can get it done.

[shz]

I'm going to be churning away on this on the backend for a while. I figure, this keeps coming up as something we need asap and then getting dropped, so it makes sense to work on it before that happens again :P.

It's a bit of a slow process building up new node.js mailgun functionality given the poor documentation their API has, but the mailgun support should be ready fairly soon at a low work rate.