3 posts tagged with "Tutorials"

Every other part of your application has tests. Your API endpoints have integration tests. Your database queries have unit tests. Your business logic has coverage reports. But email? You deploy, open Gmail, trigger a password reset, and squint at the inbox. That is not testing. That is hoping.

The worst part is that nobody calls it out. Teams celebrate 90% code coverage and ship welcome emails they have never once verified in an automated test.

You can build an AI agent that reads incoming email, understands what the sender wants, and writes a reply. Not in a weekend. Not after a week of infrastructure work. In about 30 minutes.

This tutorial will walk you through it. By the end, you'll have a working agent that monitors an inbox, classifies incoming messages, generates context-aware replies, and sends them back on the correct thread.

Three API calls. One real email. No DNS setup required.

Most email APIs promise you can "get started in minutes." Then you click "Get Started" and the real journey begins.

Verify your domain. Add three DNS records. Wait for propagation. Configure SMTP credentials. Pick a sending IP. Set up SPF. Set up DKIM. Pray that DMARC doesn't break everything.

By the time you send your first email, your coffee is cold and your motivation is somewhere else entirely.

Let's try something different.