Weekly newsletter summary email

If you’re like most developers, you’re subscribed to a number of email newsletters to keep you up to date with the latest tools and frameworks. These are useful, but can quickly clog up your inbox over time. This project will have you build a serverless app to consolidate your email subscriptions into a single weekly summary email.

Emails sent to a specific email address are parsed, written to a database, and sent to your primary inbox as part of a single weekly email.

For an extra challenge

• Preserve the design of each email newsletter.
• Choose your ideal frequency (e.g. weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly) and the best time of week to receive the summary.

Either create a new email address to receive your newsletters, or find a clever way to only summarize those marked as email newsletters (archiving them so only the summary email hits your unread list). For example, if you use Gmail, you can add ‘+newsletters’ to your email address (e.g. yourname+newsletters@gmail.com) and only summarize emails sent to this modified address.

Once a week, invoke an AWS Lambda function (using Amazon CloudWatch scheduled events) to programmatically read your new newsletter subscription emails, combine them into a single summary email, and send the summary email to your primary inbox using Amazon SES or another transactional email service.

• All the AWS offerings used here can be accessed under the AWS Free Tier.
• This tutorial shows you how to read and send emails using Python and the imaplib library.
• Read the AWS docs to learn how to send Amazon SES emails using AWS Lambda.