An unreasonably useful two hour project: a microservice which, given an email address, returns their webmail login URL.
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"What would I do with that?" Anywhere you roadblock people with "Go click on X in your email") you give them a link to inbox.
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"How would I implement that?" The B2C case is straightforward -- http://someone-at-gmail.com domains are at Gmail. For B2B, query MX records.
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A particularly big win on mobile, since task-switching to their email client is harder than on desktop. (Modestly harder to implement.)
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@patio11 Trello does this; Protip: domains that resolve to a google subdomain can be directly reached with http://mail.google.com/a/ <domain>2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
@aarondufour Yep! That's the most useful case for most SaaS companies. There's a long-tail of clunky webmail providers, too.
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