Parse Inbound Email - Building SaaS with Python and Django #175

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In this episode, we switched to the inbound side and parsed an email to transform it into a journal entry. This caused us to look into the dateutil library and look at Python’s standard email module to use EmailMessage.

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Message Parsing and Ruff - Building SaaS with Python and Django #176

In this episode, we finished off the core portion of the application by parsing entries out of the messages sent back by SendGrid. We set up the Heroku Scheduler to start the daily flow of …

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Idempotent Jobs - Building SaaS with Python and Django #174

In this episode, we cleaned up the email sending job. I had to make some changes based on some discoveries that I made while researching how to track responses and associate the journal …

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