THE MAILMAN

GG Slack Bot built with BotKit

Service for providing GG Customer Success team member with the ability to retrieve emails from the development server in a self-serve way, freeing up DevOps time resources and providing CS with shorter turnaround time during OQ-PQ.

Getting Started

• git clone git@github.com:jason-tuttle/gg-mailbot
• cd gg-mailman; npm install
• Update .env file
• ngrok http [port]
• node index.js OR npm run watch to watch the server for changes

Prerequisites

• Slack Account with Admin Access
• BotKit on GitHub
• BotKit Slack README
• node and npm
• ngrok (if you want to develop locally)
• Heroku Account (for deployment)

Create Slack Bot

• Login to your Slack Account
• Create a Slack Application
  • https://api.slack.com/apps
• Create a bot user
  • https://api.slack.com/bot-users
• Update .env Client ID/Secret from App Information and Bot Token

Mailman sez what?

• responds to a slash command /getthemail [email] [timespan in minutes]
  • presents the user with a dialog containing a dropdown of subject headers that match the email address provided, and were created within the time provided by the timespan option

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