Setting Up
The Porch Vault Email account was set up to use as an automated email service. In order to set this up to do so two things needed to be done. First the gmail account needed to have outside applications access sending from the email account. The second was setting up an SMTP service on the back end server. Setting up the gmail permission was straightforward. Then setting up the SMTP service required setting up an email sending service on the backend of the web server. The function upon being built out used user email addresses. The notify function was hooked up to the actual verify endpoint but only upon successful verification. This sends a notification to the user that access has happened to their box. This seemed like a standard thing to do in the modern web app space. SMS notification would have been a good stretch goal but we it does seem overkill.