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conjoon/lumen-app-email
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A backend service for IMAP/SMTP email messaging.

v1.1.5(2y ago)42032[12 issues](https://github.com/conjoon/lumen-app-email/issues)[2 PRs](https://github.com/conjoon/lumen-app-email/pulls)MITPHPPHP ^8.1

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[](#conjoonlumen-app-email--)

Backend service for IMAP/SMTP email messaging.

What is lumen-app-email?
------------------------

[](#what-is-lumen-app-email)

**conjoon/lumen-app-email** is a standalone **PHP🐘** application built with [Lumen](https://lumen.laravel.com). It provides a backend for Email messaging according to [https://github.com/conjoon/rest-api-description](conjoon/rest-api-description)and serves endpoints for reading, writing and sending email messages with **IMAP**/**SMTP**.

**lumen-app-email** has minimal footprint and is easy to install.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
$ composer create-project conjoon/lumen-app-email htdocs "1.*"
```

Please refer to the official [documentation](./docs) of **lumen-app-email** for further information on installation and configuration.

Features
--------

[](#features)

**lumen-app-email** follows a service oriented approach. Services are easily replaceable with the help of upfront DI configurations and related bindings.

**Use lumen-app-email, if you...**

- need a fully functional middleware for communicating with IMAP / SMTP servers
- want to provide webmail solutions with various authentication methods, such as
    - domain-specific sign-in to IMAP accounts, orchestrated by the server
    - connecting to IMAP accounts solely configured by the users
- are looking for an email messaging solution with minimal footprint that's easy to distribute
- require a headless, service oriented standalone application in your infrastructure that can also be run frontend agnostic

API Examples
------------

[](#api-examples)

```
# Return a list of available MailAccounts for the requesting client
GET /MailAccounts HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Basic Y29uam9vbjpIZWxsb1dvcmxk
Host: hostname

# Return the envelope data of the first 50 MessageItems w/o previewText of the INBOX mailbox
# for the MailAccount identified by "gmail"
GET /MailAccounts/gmail/MailFolders/INBOX/MessageItems?start=0&limit=50&attributes=*,previewText HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Basic Y29uam9vbjpIZWxsb1dvcmxk
Host: hostname

# Return the email identified with the uid 4356 of the INBOX mailbox for the MailAccount identified by "gmail"
GET /MailAccounts/gmail/MailFolders/INBOX/MessageItems/4356 HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Basic Y29uam9vbjpIZWxsb1dvcmxk
Host: hostname
```

Backend API documentation
-------------------------

[](#backend-api-documentation)

For the list of endpoints this service provides, please refer to the [OpenApi-documentation of `rest-api-email`](https://github.com/conjoon/rest-api-description), available as OpenAPI documentation at [conjoon.stoplight.io](https://conjoon.stoplight.io/docs/rest-api-description/)

Additional Notes
----------------

[](#additional-notes)

### Official Documentation

[](#official-documentation)

The official documentation can be found at the project page for [conjoon](https://www.conjoon.org/docs/api/backends/@conjoon/lumen-app-email). This documentation is in line with the offical project page.

### WIP

[](#wip)

**lumen-app-email** is a work in progress. We are constantly improving the API and strive for a RESTful implementation. You can follow us on [Github](https://github.com/conjoon/lumen-app-email) for updates related to this and other related projects.

#### Composer 2.0 - Pear/Horde vows

[](#composer-20---pearhorde-vows)

As of **v1.0.1**, **[php-lib-conjoon](conjoon/php-lib-conjoon)** no longer requires *Composer 1.\** for installation. For *Composer 2.\**-compatibility, **php-lib-conjoon** relies on the following private composer package repository:

```
https://horde-satis.maintaina.com

```

This repository is mentioned in **THIS** package's *composer.json*This repository is also mentioned in the *composer.json*-file of [horde/horde\_deployment](https://github.com/horde/horde-deployment/blob/master/composer.json).

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 60% of packages

Maintenance11

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity16

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 99.8% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~74 days

Recently: every ~91 days

Total

7

Last Release

828d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)v1.0.0PHP &gt;=7.4

v1.1.5PHP ^8.1

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