Mail

Project 3 for CS50’s Web Programming with Python and JavaScript.

Overview

A front-end for an email client that makes API calls to send and receive emails.

Specification

The project completes the following requirements:

• Send Mail: When a user submits the email composition form, add JavaScript code to actually send the email.
  • Once the email has been sent, load the user’s sent mailbox.
• Mailbox: When a user visits their Inbox, Sent mailbox, or Archive, load the appropriate mailbox.
  • When a mailbox is visited, the application should first query the API for the latest emails in that mailbox.
  • When a mailbox is visited, the name of the mailbox should appear at the top of the page.
  • Each email should then be rendered in its own box (e.g. as a
    with a border) that displays who the email is from, what the subject line is, and the timestamp of the email.
  • If the email is unread, it should appear with a white background. If the email has been read, it should appear with a gray background.
• View Email: When a user clicks on an email, the user should be taken to a view where they see the content of that email.
  • Your application should show the email’s sender, recipients, subject, timestamp, and body.
  • Once the email has been clicked on, you should mark the email as read. Recall that you can send a PUT request to /emails/ to update whether an email is read or not.
• Archive and Unarchive: Allow users to archive and unarchive emails that they have received.
  • When viewing an Inbox email, the user should be presented with a button that lets them archive the email. When viewing an Archive email, the user should be presented with a button that lets them unarchive the email. This requirement does not apply to emails in the Sent mailbox.
  • Once an email has been archived or unarchived, load the user’s inbox.
• Reply: Allow users to reply to an email.
  • When viewing an email, the user should be presented with a “Reply” button that lets them reply to the email.
  • When the user clicks the “Reply” button, they should be taken to the email composition form.
  • Pre-fill the composition form with the recipient field set to whoever sent the original email.
  • Pre-fill the subject line. If the original email had a subject line of foo, the new subject line should be Re: foo. (If the subject line already begins with Re: , no need to add it again.)
  • Pre-fill the body of the email with a line like "On Jan 1 2020, 12:00 AM [email protected] wrote:" followed by the original text of the email.

Setup

To set up this project on your computer:

1. Download this project:
   git clone https://github.com/TahaFayyaz1/Mail.git
2. Install all necessary dependencies
   pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Make migrations
   python manage.py makemigrations mail
4. Migrate
   python manage.py migrate

Preview

A demonstration of my project's functionality has be recorded and uploaded on Youtube: Project Demonstration