Author: Mailsac Engineering

November Release: Load Testing Feature + Performance Boosts

Mailsac Engineering

We are excited to announce upgrades to the Mailsac Platform, recently deployed in November 2024.

Load Testing Feature

Mailsac is the first QA Disposable Email Platform which allows Load Testing or Burn Testing of SMTP sender servers. You can safely send enormous amounts of test email to Mailsac after creating a Load Test Subdomain in the Mailsac Dashboard. When we receive these emails to a special subdomain, they are not subject to the (already high) throttling limits of the main platform. Note that emails are not saved/indexed as normal, so this is a feature specifically for testing your capacity to send high volume email campaigns.

More tutorials for Load Testing email will be coming soon.

Improved Account Analytics Performance

We overhauled the backend systems for usage and analytics. You may have noticed sluggishness in the past on these features, but that should be gone for good. There’s also an updated user interface for debugging inbound mail and webhooks.

Updates and Fixes For October 2023

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Unified Inbox, UI Modernization Efforts, and Maintenance Notifications

We do our best to be customer-focused by listening to our customer feedback and making sure your issues are addressed.

This month, we focused on UI issues that customers reported or we noticed when we were using our service.

Improved Maintenance Notifications

During a major database upgrade in September we noticed our maintenance notification on the website wasn’t always working properly. This resulted in customers seeing an unfriendly error.

From now on, customers will see a friendlier error page or API message when we are down for maintenance. That’s typically rare – once a year on average. We deploy often. Mailsac’s architecture has several load balancers and caches, and redundancies – we avoid stop-the-world events. But sometimes that’s unavoidable, and we hope it won’t be confusing.

Unified Inbox

The navigation bar for the Unified Inbox now works properly under Safari. It should no longer be cut-off (missing pagination buttons) in other browsers while viewing a message.

Starred messages for non-owned inboxes will now appear in the Unified Inbox.

UI Modernization

As noted in previous posts, we are migrating the entire Mailsac user interface to React and Next.js. After all pages are migrated, we will give the styling a facelift.

For now the migration should look seamless – perhaps slightly faster and more solid (thank you static typing and pre-compilation).

The account details page has been converted over to Next.js.

A bug that didn’t allow a customer to remove an invoice email was fixed.

The password reset and account deletion functions were moved to their own pages.

We added many more integration tests to account management features.

Backend upgrades

On a weekly basis we patch, upgrade and improve the many backend systems of Mailsac across several environments. Typically this involves making small change to ansible, terraform, docker, code dependencies, or other infra-as-code. We often migrate portions of the 12+ year old Node.js JavaScript codebase to TypeScript or Go. If we’re luckily, we can delete unnecessary code or remove a dependency.

To run this SaaS smoothly, every day we get onto the software treadmill. We we enjoy running this service immensely, and hope you enjoy using it.

Open Source Spam Processing

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Mailsac has added a new spamminess indicator in the API.

New messages will have a spam property that’s a score between 0.0 and 1.0. 1.0 indicates a high likelihood of spam. The system will get smarter over time.

The main component of spam detection is a time tested approach called Naive Bayes Classifier. The core of the code is open source at github.com/mailsac/spam-classifier, though a little special sauce is applied, too. This classifier library is ready to use and includes a simple API server and a terminal training tool.

In the works are additional spam classification projects using three different deep learning techniques: random forest, a long short term neural network, and a combination recurrent network + liquid state machine with spike dependent plasticity. The goal is to open source the useful pieces of the coming spam classifiers.

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Introducing Docker Support

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UPDATE:
The on-premise version of Mailsac has been ended. Contact support@team.mailsac.com to learn more about our dedicated instances instead, or visit mailsac.com/enterprise.

On-Premise Mailsac now comes with the Dockerfiles and docker-compose.yml to get up and running in seconds using Docker.

Each Mailsac microservice can be run independently with Docker. A convenient Makefile is included alongside the Dockerfile in each service, with a sample task for running in docker (make docker-run).

Frontend API+UI example:

$ cd frontend
$ make docker-run
docker build -t mailsac/frontend .
Sending build context to Docker daemon   4.34MB
Step 1/7 : FROM node:8-alpine
 ---> 406f227b21f5
Step 2/7 : RUN apk update && apk add git
 ---> Using cache
 ---> d4e543b7bbe6
Step 3/7 : COPY . /opt/frontend
 ---> c23657034aba
Step 4/7 : WORKDIR /opt/frontend
Removing intermediate container 776dfd90f8e7
 ---> 5558d5ac56ab
Step 5/7 : RUN npm i --production
 ---> Running in 3b4298ca4ae0
added 333 packages in 12.184s
Removing intermediate container 3b4298ca4ae0
 ---> 8adfac5691b0
Step 6/7 : EXPOSE 3000
 ---> Running in 3070214927bd
Removing intermediate container 3070214927bd
 ---> 199808362a19
Step 7/7 : CMD node app.js
 ---> Running in e5ceede43634
Removing intermediate container e5ceede43634
 ---> 3dafbb6f3f2e
Successfully built 3dafbb6f3f2e
Successfully tagged mailsac/frontend:latest
docker run --rm -d -p 0.0.0.0:3000:3000 --name=mailsac mailsac/frontend
9533f06a0751e1a7ebb67de93b563e14679fed634d567728d81681fc99d6211d
docker logs -f frontend

------ Mailsac ------

connecting to mongo
started message disk cache
connected to mongo

Inbound SMTP server:

$ make docker-run
go build -ldflags '-s -w -X main.gitversion=v15.0.1'
docker build --no-cache -t mailsac/inbound .
Sending build context to Docker daemon  4.619MB
Step 1/5 : FROM alpine
 ---> 3fd9065eaf02
Step 2/5 : COPY inbound /opt/inbound
 ---> 1d14457a75fc
Step 3/5 : WORKDIR /opt
Removing intermediate container a97ae6ac27e0
 ---> a4230e86d399
Step 4/5 : EXPOSE 25 587
 ---> Running in e43b166f773e
Removing intermediate container e43b166f773e
 ---> 4bdc6745ff78
Step 5/5 : ENTRYPOINT ["/opt/inbound"]
 ---> Running in b812c4442101
Removing intermediate container b812c4442101
 ---> 620d169d15f1
Successfully built 620d169d15f1
Successfully tagged mailsac/inbound:latest
docker run --rm -d -p 0.0.0.0:25:25 -p 0.0.0.0:587:587 --name=inbound mailsac/inbound
cef23b5af410f0f5663727ad1c16cda5d070d3232ad2d5ee94db5b64562ad513
docker logs -f inbound
syslog connected:127.0.0.1:514
Starting server on port 587
Starting server on port 25

A sample docker-compose.yml file is also included. As a result you can have a fully running set of Mailsac services without even deploying it, in seconds. It should serve as a good starting point for understanding how the services talk to each other, and setting up your own deployment using pure Docker, Docker + Ansible, or an orchestrator like Kubernetes.

$ docker-compose up --build
Building relay
Step 1/7 : FROM node:8-alpine
 ---> 406f227b21f5
Step 2/7 : RUN apk update && apk add git
 ---> Using cache
 ---> d4e543b7bbe6
Step 3/7 : COPY . /opt/relay
 ---> Using cache
 ---> bdd144f2089f
Step 4/7 : WORKDIR /opt/relay
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 58a37f36a693
Step 5/7 : RUN npm i --production
 ---> Using cache
 ---> c0be4245ebf6
Step 6/7 : EXPOSE 3007
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 88c4d2f6c6b9
Step 7/7 : CMD node server.js
 ---> Using cache
 ---> f5b8551d0fbd
Successfully built f5b8551d0fbd
Successfully tagged ms2_relay:latest
Building notifier
Step 1/4 : FROM alpine
 ---> 3fd9065eaf02
Step 2/4 : COPY notifier /opt/notifier
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 5ee53ef401f3
Step 3/4 : EXPOSE 8080
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 57fb8f8fe110
Step 4/4 : ENTRYPOINT /opt/notifier
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 35ac15e5cc01
Successfully built 35ac15e5cc01
Successfully tagged ms2_notifier:latest
Building frontend
Step 1/7 : FROM node:8-alpine
 ---> 406f227b21f5
Step 2/7 : RUN apk update && apk add git
 ---> Using cache
 ---> d4e543b7bbe6
Step 3/7 : COPY . /opt/frontend
 ---> 37b9ad50d96f
Step 4/7 : WORKDIR /opt/frontend
Removing intermediate container a2b4b26dbac3
 ---> 0d1c573b307b
Step 5/7 : RUN npm i --production
 ---> Running in 535408d85bd6
npm WARN deprecated mimelib@0.3.1: This project is unmaintained
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
added 333 packages in 11.041s
Removing intermediate container 535408d85bd6
 ---> 95016c15e489
Step 6/7 : EXPOSE 3000
 ---> Running in 4879a888ecea
Removing intermediate container 4879a888ecea
 ---> a086e8e90f50
Step 7/7 : CMD node app.js
 ---> Running in 834c6bc77297
Removing intermediate container 834c6bc77297
 ---> 3a815540ed78
Successfully built 3a815540ed78
Successfully tagged ms2_frontend:latest
Building outbound
Step 1/5 : FROM alpine
 ---> 3fd9065eaf02
Step 2/5 : COPY outbound /opt/outbound
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 76eba650e12d
Step 3/5 : EXPOSE 587
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 15e317117cf7
Step 4/5 : WORKDIR /opt
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 8e337b87460e
Step 5/5 : ENTRYPOINT ["/opt/outbound"]
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 755c189ce229
Successfully built 755c189ce229
Successfully tagged ms2_outbound:latest
Building pop3
Step 1/4 : FROM alpine
 ---> 3fd9065eaf02
Step 2/4 : COPY pop3 /opt/pop3
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 23743111b4ae
Step 3/4 : EXPOSE 9090 110
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 757d6120f3c3
Step 4/4 : ENTRYPOINT /opt/pop3
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 4f9969d09d90
Successfully built 4f9969d09d90
Successfully tagged ms2_pop3:latest
Building inbound
Step 1/5 : FROM alpine
 ---> 3fd9065eaf02
Step 2/5 : COPY inbound /opt/inbound
 ---> fbf61d35f8af
Step 3/5 : WORKDIR /opt
Removing intermediate container 7ed35fdd8d8a
 ---> dbf3f6c46c4d
Step 4/5 : EXPOSE 25 587
 ---> Running in 0ffeb91b767e
Removing intermediate container 0ffeb91b767e
 ---> dffa069abe07
Step 5/5 : ENTRYPOINT ["/opt/inbound"]
 ---> Running in f1cf5e565847
Removing intermediate container f1cf5e565847
 ---> 841f16e95ee1
Successfully built 841f16e95ee1
Successfully tagged ms2_inbound:latest
Building filer
Step 1/4 : FROM alpine
 ---> 3fd9065eaf02
Step 2/4 : COPY filer /opt/filer
 ---> Using cache
 ---> a700eb91ac4d
Step 3/4 : EXPOSE 3005
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 8e2c5401bf0a
Step 4/4 : ENTRYPOINT /opt/filer
 ---> Using cache
 ---> 1b578459a892
Successfully built 1b578459a892
Successfully tagged ms2_filer:latest
Starting ms2_mongo_1 ... 
Starting ms2_mongo_1 ... done
Starting ms2_notifier_1 ... done
Recreating ms2_frontend_1 ... done
Recreating ms2_inbound_1 ... 
Recreating ms2_filer_1 ... 
Recreating ms2_pop3_1 ... 
Recreating ms2_inbound_1 ... done
Attaching to ms2_relay_1, ms2_mongo_1, ms2_notifier_1, ms2_frontend_1, ms2_filer_1, ms2_pop3_1, ms2_outbound_1, ms2_inbound_1
relay_1     | starting app server on port 3007
notifier_1  | 
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:13.328+0000 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] MongoDB starting : pid=1 port=27017 dbpath=/data/db 64-bit host=d2b548e5f949
notifier_1  | ---- Mailsac Notifier Startup ----
notifier_1  |  
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:13.328+0000 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] db version v3.6.2
relay_1     | verifyKeys failed Skipping default domain DKIM verificiation due to missing private key file
notifier_1  | Connecting to db at mongo:27017
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:13.328+0000 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] git version: 489d177dbd0f0420a8ca04d39fd78d0a2c539420
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:13.329+0000 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] OpenSSL version: LibreSSL 2.6.3
frontend_1  | No YAML parser loaded.  Suggest adding js-yaml dependency to your package.json file.
relay_1     | mailsac relay server listening on port 3007
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:13.329+0000 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] allocator: system
filer_1     | syslog connected:127.0.0.1:514
pop3_1      | syslog connected: 127.0.0.1:514
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:13.330+0000 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] modules: none
filer_1     | 
filer_1     | ---- Mailsac Filer Startup ----
filer_1     |  
outbound_1  | syslog connected:127.0.0.1:514
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:13.330+0000 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] build environment:
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:13.330+0000 I CONTROL  [initandlisten]     distarch: x86_64
pop3_1      | ---- Mailsac POP3 Server and HTTP Server Startup 0.0.0.0 ----
pop3_1      | mailsac base api is http://frontend:3000
pop3_1      | Started pop3 server on port 1100
inbound_1   | syslog connected:127.0.0.1:514
pop3_1      | starting metrics listening at 0.0.0.0:9090/metrics
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:13.330+0000 I CONTROL  [initandlisten]     target_arch: x86_64
filer_1     | Starting up server 0.0.0.0:3005 using TLS=%!b(bool=false)  
outbound_1  | ---- Starting Mailsac Outbound SMTP Server 0.0.0.0:587 ----
inbound_1   | Starting server on port 587
filer_1     | will register availability as filer:3005
pop3_1      | 2018/03/11 23:20:16 Server listening on: 0.0.0.0:1100
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:13.331+0000 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] options: { net: { bindIp: "0.0.0.0" } }
inbound_1   | Starting server on port 25
filer_1     | base data folder is /data/mailsac
filer_1     | cleanup start folder=/data/mailsac
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:13.337+0000 I -        [initandlisten] Detected data files in /data/db created by the 'wiredTiger' storage engine, so setting the active storage engine to 'wiredTiger'.
filer_1     | cleanup found folder empty - done
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:13.351+0000 I STORAGE  [initandlisten] wiredtiger_open config: create,cache_size=487M,session_max=20000,eviction=(threads_min=4,threads_max=4),config_base=false,statistics=(fast),log=(enabled=true,archive=true,path=journal,compressor=snappy),file_manager=(close_idle_time=100000),statistics_log=(wait=0),verbose=(recovery_progress),
filer_1     | failed constructing registration!! http://frontend:3000/api/fileserver-registration/filer%3A3005 Get http://frontend:3000/api/fileserver-registration/filer%3A3005: dial tcp 172.18.0.5:3000: connect: connection refused
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:14.427+0000 I STORAGE  [initandlisten] WiredTiger message [1520810414:427265][1:0x7fbefc2d9730], txn-recover: Main recovery loop: starting at 17/5248
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:15.204+0000 I STORAGE  [initandlisten] WiredTiger message [1520810415:204706][1:0x7fbefc2d9730], txn-recover: Recovering log 17 through 18
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:16.173+0000 I STORAGE  [initandlisten] WiredTiger message [1520810416:172793][1:0x7fbefc2d9730], txn-recover: Recovering log 18 through 18
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:16.480+0000 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] 
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:16.481+0000 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] ** WARNING: Access control is not enabled for the database.
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:16.481+0000 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] **          Read and write access to data and configuration is unrestricted.
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:16.481+0000 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] 
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:16.567+0000 I FTDC     [initandlisten] Initializing full-time diagnostic data capture with directory '/data/db/diagnostic.data'
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:16.568+0000 I NETWORK  [initandlisten] waiting for connections on port 27017
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:17.005+0000 I NETWORK  [listener] connection accepted from 172.18.0.4:50314 #1 (1 connection now open)
notifier_1  | Connected to db
notifier_1  | Starting up server 0.0.0.0:8080  using TLS= false  
frontend_1  | 
frontend_1  | ------ Mailsac ------
frontend_1  | 
frontend_1  | connecting to mongo
frontend_1  | started message disk cache
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:17.398+0000 I NETWORK  [listener] connection accepted from 172.18.0.5:37510 #2 (2 connections now open)
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:17.399+0000 I NETWORK  [listener] connection accepted from 172.18.0.5:37512 #3 (3 connections now open)
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:17.407+0000 I NETWORK  [conn2] received client metadata from 172.18.0.5:37510 conn: { driver: { name: "nodejs", version: "2.2.35" }, os: { type: "Linux", name: "linux", architecture: "x64", version: "4.9.60-linuxkit-aufs" }, platform: "Node.js v8.9.4, LE, mongodb-core: 2.1.19" }
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:17.408+0000 I NETWORK  [conn3] received client metadata from 172.18.0.5:37512 conn: { driver: { name: "nodejs", version: "2.2.35" }, os: { type: "Linux", name: "linux", architecture: "x64", version: "4.9.60-linuxkit-aufs" }, platform: "Node.js v8.9.4, LE, mongodb-core: 2.1.19" }
frontend_1  | connected to mongo
frontend_1  | starting app server on port 3000
frontend_1  | server listening 3000
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:17.444+0000 I NETWORK  [listener] connection accepted from 172.18.0.5:37514 #4 (4 connections now open)
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:17.449+0000 I NETWORK  [listener] connection accepted from 172.18.0.5:37516 #5 (5 connections now open)
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:17.452+0000 I NETWORK  [listener] connection accepted from 172.18.0.5:37518 #6 (6 connections now open)
mongo_1     | 2018-03-11T23:20:17.455+0000 I NETWORK  [listener] connection accepted from 172.18.0.5:37520 #7 (7 connections now open)

The original Ansible based server deployment scripts are still included. After a few requests for Docker, it was decided to make it easier for prem customers to run themselves. Both Docker and non-Docker Ansible deployments will be supported for the foreseeable future.

(Resolved) Outage Report: Tue Feb 6 2018

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The VPS host which handles the Mailsac database servers is having a routing issue, and most of the microservices are unable to contact it. We are in direct communication with the our support rep regarding this issue and expect it to be resolved ASAP. This is a full outage.

Service status can be tracked here: status.mailsac.com

We apologize for the issue and will be working to minimize the likelihood of this happening again.

Timeline (US Pacific)

– 2018-02-06 09:36 Outage noticed by monitoring services
– 2018-02-06 09:37 Troubleshooting and evaluating logs on shared logging server
– 2018-02-06 09:38 Able to ssh into primary database node from office
– 2018-02-06 09:38 Ticket opened with upstream hosting company indicating many geographically distributed services cannot reach the network of the database servers
– 2018-02-06 09:43 Provided several traceroutes for help troubleshooting
– 2018-02-06 09:59 Monitoring indicates the service is back online
– 2018-02-06 10:03 All frontend UI/API servers were rebooted in series to clear a MongoDB error “Topology was destroyed”
– 2018-02-06 10:05 Error notifications seem to all be cleared
– 2018-02-06 10:10 Updated HAProxy error pages to include links to status page and community website

Edit: Concluding Remarks

Mailsac’s database, for caching and data storage, is MongoDB. Without the database, everything grinds to a halt. MongoDB supports configurations for high availability (Replication with Automatic Failover).

Having all nodes of the database hosted in one provider’s network has proven to not be sufficient to prevent outages. In this case, a router within the hosting company’s network failed, which caused none of the MongoDB nodes to be accessible to the networks of the other hosting companies. We will take some time to change that configuration.

Mailsac already has microservice instances across multiple providers and geographic regions, as seen in the system diagram:

basic diagram of the mailsac email microservices

In the event one or two instances went offline, or even an entire region of an upstream host, Mailsac should not go down as long as the database was still accessible to the API. Obviously that was not the case here.

The solution will be to add a Secondary Node and Arbiter in different networks.

Parsed Links on Messages API

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Message metadata will now include pre-parsed links. This enhancement should make automation even easier.

 

For example, say you want to test email signup confirmations on your website. Normally you would need to request the inbox for the test inbox:

GET /api/addresses/mytestemail@example.com/messages
[{
  _id: 'y39sak29gaer-0',
  subject: 'Confirm your email address',
  from: [{ address: 'noreply@sampleservice.com' }],
  to: [{ address: 'mytestemail@example.com' }]
  // more fields
}]

then download the full email or body:

GET /api/dirty/mytestemail@example.com/y39sak29gaer-0
<div>
  <a href="https://www.sampleservice.com/email-confirmation/39349234">Confirm your email!</a>
</div>

then parse the contents and search for the link.

Now the message metadata from the first request will also include a links array of strings:

GET /api/addresses/mytestemail@example.com/messages
[{
  _id: 'y39sak29gaer-0',
  subject: 'Confirm your email address',
  from: [{ address: 'noreply@sampleservice.com' }],
  to: [{ address: 'mytestemail@example.com' }]
  links: ['https://www.sampleservice.com/email-confirmation/39349234']
}]

This feature should save you a roundtrip to the API and let you not worry about properly parsing HTML links.

 

API Reference

 

15 minute partial API outage due apparent DOS

Mailsac Engineering

For about 15 minutes (8:13 am – 8:27 am PDT), our API was flooded with traffic due to hundreds of thousands of email attempts from 4 IP addresses. Nearly all emails were received, but HTTP requests for the API and UI frequently timed out. We do not know the percentage of requests that timed out, but it was quite high. The API is load balanced and only one API was timing out frequently.

We blocked the bad IPs immediately upon seeing traffic logs (~8:19), but because our custom IP blocking service relies on the API to fetch the blacklist, and the API was not fully responsive to HTTP on one leg, it took a while for the changes to propagate to all five inbound SMTP servers.

Faster response times on message routes

Mailsac Engineering

A LRU caching layer, active on each API, was added recently. Since email contents are stored separately from the database and every other microservice, many API requests will get faster. We expect faster response times for recently received messages, messages that are requested repeatedly, and any API request where the message is re-parsed in-flight.

Mailsac stores metadata about every message in MongoDB. In the interest of saving disk and RAM, the full email contents are stored across file servers. When a piece of the email is requested via the API, the full file is fetched and parsed into the desired format. Believe it or not, for Mailsac, CPU is far less resource constrained than disk and RAM, so this trade-off makes sense.

For example, when the email headers are requested, the API begins fetching the full message from the file server, parses the SMTP package, formats the headers, and sends them to the client. Fetching attachments is similar – when an attachment is requested, the API gets the original email from the file server where it is stored, extracts the attachment, and transfers it to the client.

This process involves a lot of disk IO and network latency. With the LRU cache, we seeing 80 ms – 600 ms faster requests, and the cache is used on about 45% of requests that re-parse the email.

Enhanced Outbound Sending API

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Until now, all transactional messages sent through the Mailsac API only allowed text. With the latest release, the API supports HTML and attachments. Additionally supported is sending an entire raw SMTP message over the REST API.

New Transactional Email Fields

 

HTML

You can provide full HTML in the html field when doing a POST /api/outgoing-messages. This was not possible in previous versions of the API.

Attachments

Attachments can be sent and linked into the html by including an array of attachment objects in the attachments field.

Example Inline Attachment
{
  "contentDisposition": "attachment",
  "content": "3asfji32gia...93as==",
  "encoding": "base64",
  "filename": "2561a.jpg",
}
Example Attached File
{
  "cid": "F3011FGE@hsd1.ca.comcast.net.",
  "contentDisposition": "inline; filename=2561a.jpg",
  "content": "3asfji32gia...93as==",
  "encoding": "base64",
  "filename": "2561a.jpg",
}

Received Headers

Persisting received headers is now possible – send a single string or array of received headers. This allows you to receive SMTP in your application, pre-parse it, and pass along received information.

Raw SMTP over HTTP

 

If you want to test SMTP parsing or have an application that generates raw SMTP messages, put the entire SMTP contents into the raw field when doing a POST /api/outgoing-messages.

Mailsac will parse the headers, text, HTML, and attachments, then deliver it for you.

All other fields will be ignored when you send a raw message.

 

 

Read the API docs for sending transactional emails over HTTP