cla-assistant VS emailengine

I was curious about the automated CLA process. It is interesting to me to read the answer about not supporting GitLab:

https://github.com/cla-assistant/cla-assistant/issues/534

Very terse answer that says:

  As you noticed, this would mean a completely different line of code

Open source Contributor License Agreement assistant

I'm currently using https://cla-assistant.io/ just to be sure.

I use CLAAssistant and do not accept PRs without it https://cla-assistant.io/ - not that there are any notable PRs, mostly README typo fixes and such.

Signing the CLA can be automated and I highly recommend you set up this process with the help of this CLA assistant. You can also find some ready-made CLA texts out there just waiting for you to be (responsibly) copied and pasted.

You can do that wirh CLA helpers (used for some very high volume projects). For ex, https://github.com/cla-assistant/cla-assistant (this will only work if you have a Github org though as it uses Github to track people who signed)

When I started with https://emailengine.app, a similar product, I also considered releasing it as a SaaS. But looking at the competition, it seemed too complicated for me (just look at the compliance list for Nylas Email API https://www.nylas.com/security/#compliance ). Will be interesting to see how it works out for you. Good luck!

EmailEngine has all the code public [1], even though it is not open-source but is source-available. Some core parts I even published under the MIT license, like the IMAP client library I built from scratch to serve the special requirements EmailEngine has for IMAP access [2]

My thinking has always been that those who try to hack the license validation stuff and replace the missing build pipeline were never going to be my customers in the first place, so every second I would spend on them is a wasted effort.

[1] https://github.com/postalsys/emailengine

https://github.com/postalsys/emailengine

Seems open-source to me.

Well, I for one, hope that email stays as complicated as described in the post. Otherwise my project that simplifies access to email accounts (https://emailengine.app) would get no traction :D

I'd like to know if anyone here can share some experience using https://emailengine.app in a larger environment, e.g. managing / watching 100-200 email accounts and processing ~50.000-100.000 mails per day?

I had the same issues when I started with https://emailengine.app - just like Ghost, it’s an app written in Nodejs. I tried multiple distribution options at first and finally went with complete self containment. All modules are pre-installed during the publishing step and thus the user never needs to run npm. Or if you download the “compiled” single binary version you don’t even need node as it’s bundled with the binary (I use the pkg module to bundle these executables). So upgrading is just downloading and replacing the old version files with new ones.

The dowside - no sane way to use compiled dependencies, everything has to be vanilla javascript.