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supabase-mailer
Send and track email from Supabase / PostgreSQL using a Transactional Email Provider
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I was excited to find the supabase-mailer project, but unfortunately it seems that only the Mailgun provider is fully supported and working. Mailgun only has a 30 day trial, which didn't work for my needs.
This is the sixth article in a series on using the Supabase platform instead of writing a backend server. The first several articles will cover some useful PostgreSQL topics. See the first article ("Going Serverless With Supabase") in the series for more background.
From here you'll write a send_email function in Postgres that calls the API. I initially wrote the entire function in PLpgSQL and spent an entire day to get it debugged and working. And even then I wasn't happy with it. In my opinion that language is unintuitive and difficult to learn and debug. I switched over to PLV8, an extension for Postgres that supports writing functions in Javascript. It takes one click in the Supabase UI to enable this extension, and it will save hours and hours of time.