email-bridge

Email bridge

The bridge connects to a standard IMAP account and retrieves emails, encrypts them, and stores them in your peergos space.

It also looks for new outgoing email files in Peergos and sends them as emails via SMTP.

Implementation Notes

• Polling is used to periodically retrieve/send emails.

• The dependencies in /lib are Peergos.jar and Simple Java Mail - https://www.simplejavamail.org/

Compile

ant build.xml

Configuration

stored in ~/.email-bridge directory

accounts.json

[{ "username": "test", "emailAddress": "", "smtpUsername": "", "smtpPassword": "", "imapUsername": "", "imapPassword": ""}]

config.txt

sendIntervalSeconds: 30
receiveInitialDelaySeconds: 30
receiveIntervalSeconds: 30
maxNumberOfUnreadEmails: 100

Execution

java -jar EmailBridge.jar -username blah -password **** -peergos-url http://localhost:8000 -is-public-server false -smtp-host smtpHost -smtp-port 465 -imap-host imapHost -imap-port 993

Where username/password is the designated peergos user created for this purpose

Usage Example with 2 users, 'bridge' and 'alice'

1. Make sure instance of Peergos is running
2. Create the bridge user for use by the email bridge
3. Install and run email client app
4. Enter email bridge username when prompted (this sends a friend request to bridge)
5. Log in as bridge and 'allow and follow back' the friend request
6. From alice's perspective, confirm alice now has bridge listed as a friend
7. Update the properties used in the execution and configuration sections above
8. Start email bridge
9. Log in again as alice and run email client app again