Inspiration
As students we are constantly bombarded with emails. This can sometimes result in students not seeing an important email; whether that be a potential internship, or even a class being cancelled. This idea is what led us to creating a CLI based application which will monitor emails from selected senders and convert them to SMS
What it does
Monitors for emails from specified recipients in 30 minute intervals. If a new email is detected, the application will send a text message which will include the contents of the emails.
How we built it
Using Go, we utilized Twilio's API as well as IMAP protocol to retrieve emails
Challenges we ran into
parsing data provided by the IMAP protocol, this was definitely a learning curve
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We were able to utilize a language that we have learned independently. Although the application may be bare, we are very proud of the idea as it applies to a large audience
What we learned
More Golang
What's next for GO-Away-Emails
Since this is the first release of this, we intend to continue working on this idea outside of shell hacks. We would like create a front-end, as well as the capability to add many emails
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