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Developing a Mail Client for the IITK Campus Community that would be available across various platforms including Android, iOS, Windows, Web, Linux and Mac

Dart 88.14% Kotlin 0.03% Ruby 0.61% Swift 0.64% Objective-C 0.01% CMake 4.24% C++ 5.49% C 0.31% HTML 0.40% Java 0.15%

iitk-mail-client's Introduction

IITK MAIL CLIENT

Welcome to our Project which we have built a mail client service which allows you to send mail through SMTP service and receive them through IMAP service using enough_mail api. and we have done this in flutter and backend is written in dart.

Why Flutter?

Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit created by Google. It is used to build applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. Flutter apps are written in Dart, a language optimized for fast apps on any platform.

Reasons for using flutter

Flutter allows the creation of apps for Android, iOS, Web, Linux, macOS and Windows from a single codebase.
It allows the developers to see the result of code change almost instantly without restarting the app.
Google provides extensive and detailed documentation, tutorials, and sample projects, making it easier for developers to learn and master Flutter.
Excellent support in popular IDEs like Android Studio, and Visual Studio Code, with tools for debugging, profiling, and more.

Why Dart?

Dart is a programming language developed by Google. It was designed with the goal of being easy to learn, fast in execution, and capable of creating high-performance applications for a variety of platforms.

Reasons for using dart

Compilation and hot reload: Dart supports to being compiled both AOT(ahead of time) and JIT(just in time) . Dart's JIT compilation enables Flutter's famous Hot Reload feature.
Platform Support: Dart supports compilation to native machine code, which is essential for mobile development. It also compiles to JavaScript for web applications, making it versatile - across different platforms.
Dart provides robust support for asynchronous programming.

Features

There are three major features we have implemented up till now-

Authentication- Securely authenticate users using enough_mail package to provide secure and robust authentication for users
Sending Mails- Compose and send emails, including the ability to add recipients.
Fetching Mails- Retrieve and display emails from the server, allowing users to view their inbox and read individual messages.

Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone

2. Resolving dependencies

flutter pub get

3. Choose and run the emulator of your choice

You can check the available emulators and devices by pressing ctrl+shift+P on windows and cmd+shift+P on mac and then select your device. To run on your own Phone you will first need to enable developers options and USB Debugging then connect your phone with USB cable. You will be able to see your phone in the list of available devices as well as you press the above commands.

4. Running the Application

Press fn+f5 to run or execute flutter run on terminal

Note: Please refer to video for complete demonstration

Demo_Video

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akshatgupta15 sandeep14k adarshraj241408 piyushsingal3 karankk-05 medhaa09 prabhakarraj0328 adi6783 mantraj23 code-timely abhimanyu-dev shaurya244 krishjain256 bmerchant22 yashlm

iitk-mail-client's Issues

UI on Desktop

We need to have a conditional rendering based on the screen size, majorly in the email list page. It looks good on the phone, but on desktop, we need quite different UI. You can take inspiration from gmail for the same.

Extra space in subject of some mails

In some of the mails in the mail list page, there is an extra space before the subject of the mail, as in the screenshot attached

HTML mail not visible in incoming emails

device - android
HTML content emails generally from corporate mails or newsletters are not rendering correctly. Instead of displaying the formatted HTML content it either shows plain HTML or nothing at all, making it difficult to interact with the content as intended.

Expected Behaviour - HTML content should be displayed with proper formatting automatically or have an option to show HTML content on demand as on webmail.

The attachment functionality isnt working. It gives the following error

Originally posted by @KrishJain256 in #42 (comment)

Recipient issue in compose email page

recipients.mp4

When sending mail, to add recipients, we need to press enter key, to have a better UX, you can have something like this as shown in the video, if the address is not in your address book, display "add recipient", and if it is in the address book, display the suggestion