Mail5

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  Connect DID

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  Email inbox

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  Compose email

What it does

Mail5 is a decentralized/self-sovereign email app that allows send/reply emails to each other. Giving users control over their data and identity.

Features:

• Create DID and connect to local agent (browser)
• Backup/Export and Restore/Import DID
• Compose and save draft emails
• Send/Reply/Forward emails
• Support contact by easy-to-remember name for the DID

How we built it

• Mail5 app is built on top of SvelteJS, Skeleton UI, Tailwind CSS and
• Leverage Web5 JS SDK to handle identity and data storage
  • Self Sovereign Identity SDK to manage Decentralized Identifiers
  • Decentralized Web Nodes SDK is for data storage control and message relay mechanism.

Challenges we ran into

• The current version of the Web5 SDK does not support DID backup/restore. It requires me to strongly explore source code to implement this feature.
• DIF work items specification is quite hard to read and understand easily.

What we learned

• Learning a lot about Decentralized Identity Foundation’s (DIF) work items such as Decentralized Web Nodes, Decentralized Identity, DIDComm...
• Understanding Web5 idea, Decentralized Web Platform, Decentralized Identifiers, Decentralized Web Nodes, Protocols...

What's next for Mail5

• Improve UI/UX, support responsive mobile
• Implement more utility functionalities such as search, paging...
• Improve Backup/Restore functions

Built With

• skeleton-ui
• svelte
• tailwind-css
• web5