November 11, 2012
Nutshell: I used a free SendGrid developer account, a free Trello account, and a free Google App Engine account.
I added a subdomain to iandouglas.com, set its MX record to point to mx.sendgrid.net, then modified a portion
of py-trello to be appengine-compatible, and wrote some other Python code
to answer a POST operation as a webhook.
SendGrid would perform a POST operation to my webhook when receiving Email to any recipient at @mynewsubdomain.iandouglas.com using the SendGrid Parse API The python script at App Engine then re-POST’s that information to Trello.
The subject line because the title of the card, and the body of the email became the card body at Trello.
Why did I go through this? Two reasons:
- Because I could. And because some colleagues would use it. And because I wanted to give a lightning talk at PyCon Canada.
- Because I found some crazy service who wanted to charge $10/month for a similar service, and all of this can be done totally free with a little work. Not that I’m against paying money for a valuable service, I’m just opposed to their particular model that costs what seems an awfully large amount of money for the limited usage they allowed.
My code lives here:
https://github.com/iandouglas/email-trello
Please review the README.md file at GitHub for additional information.