Email

Everything about what leaves the app: who it goes to, how it is sent, what is held back from it, and what has already gone. Sending is driven by cron — set the schedule under Settings → Automation.

Email digest

Where the updates get sent.

Enable email sending Nothing is sent while this is off, including from cron.

Send to Comma-separate several addresses. From address Must be on your own domain, or the host will reject it. From name Subject template Placeholders: {count} {date} {site} Do not send fewer than Stops near-empty digests. Max items per digest Drop deadlines that passed over Days. A closed opportunity is never sent and drops out of Updates into Expired. The few days of grace are deliberate: deadlines are read off prose and the wrong date sometimes wins, so something that “closed” yesterday may not have. 0 turns it off. Hold deadlines further off than Days. An item whose deadline is beyond this is not sent and sits under Later on the Updates page, then appears and is emailed on its own once the deadline comes inside the window — nothing is archived or deleted. Items with no deadline are never held. 0 turns it off.

After a digest goes out Delete the updates it carried Keeps the Updates page a worklist rather than an archive. …but hold them for Days to keep an emailed update before deleting it. 0 deletes as soon as the digest is sent.

Deleted updates leave a fingerprint behind, so the same opportunity is never collected or emailed twice — you are dropping the copy on this site, not forgetting that it was sent. The record is on the Updates page under Already sent.

Delivery method

When it goes out

Frequency Not before (UTC hour) Days (weekly) Comma-separated: mon tue wed thu fri sat sun

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Preview the digest →

Recipients

Each person can get their own slice. Leave the list empty to send everything to the single address above.

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What to leave out of the email

Applied when the digest is built, not when scraping. Excluded items stay in the app and stay searchable — they just never reach your inbox.

Never email these opportunity types

Click to toggle. Handy if, say, award announcements are drowning out the internships you actually want. Never email these work modes

Never email these sources Ctrl+click to select several, or none at all.

Blocked phrases One per line. Any item whose title or description contains one of these is held back. Required phrases (optional) If filled in, an item must contain at least one of these to be emailed.

Minimum score to email 0 = no extra limit. Only items newer than (days) 0 = any age.

Only items with a future deadline

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Setting this up on cPanel hosting

Two ways to send. Both are included with almost every shared plan and neither costs anything.

First, in cPanel, make the mailbox. Open Email → Email Accounts → Create and add one on your own domain — for example [email protected]. Give it a password and keep it. This address is what the digest is sent from; it does not have to be where you read it.

It must be on your own domain. A Gmail or Outlook address in the From field is refused by nearly every shared host, and the refusal is usually silent — no bounce, no error, nothing arrives. The check at the top of this page tells you if yours is wrong.

Route A — PHP mail() simplest

The host’s own mail system. No password anywhere, nothing to configure, and it is what the check at the top of this page is testing for. Start here.

Sending method	PHP mail()
From address	`[email protected]`
From name	anything — it is what recipients see
Send to	where you actually read mail (Gmail is fine here)
SMTP fields	leave every one of them empty

If nothing arrives: the host has either disabled mail() or is silently discarding it. That is common on cheaper plans and is not something this app can work around — use Route B.

Route B — SMTP more reliable

The same mailbox, but logged into properly. Slower per message and it needs the password, but it is authenticated, so it lands in far more inboxes and tells you plainly when something is wrong.

Sending method	SMTP
SMTP host	`mail.your-domain.com` cPanel shows the exact name under Connect Devices on the mailbox.
Port & security	`465` with SSL, or `587` with TLS
Username	the whole address, `[email protected]` Not just “ceradar” — this is the single most common mistake.
Password	the mailbox password you set in cPanel

If it is refused: try the other port and security pairing before anything else. Some hosts block 587 outbound, some block 465, and a few require the server’s real hostname rather than mail.your-domain.com.

Then press Send a test to myself, at the top of this page. It sends one small message by whichever route you chose and reports the real error if there is one. Do that before switching sending on — a broken digest discovered by cron is a digest you never see, and never find out you never saw.

Last, set the cron job. Nothing is ever sent without it, however this page is configured. The command to paste is on Settings → Automation; hourly suits most setups.

How the email looks

Wording, colour and which details each listing shows. The preview on the right updates as you type — nothing is saved until you press Save.

Small line above the title Leave empty to drop it. Accent colour The header band, the section rules and the links. The paler text on the band is worked out from it, so any colour stays readable.

Heading Opening paragraph (optional) Sits above the first listing. Line breaks are kept. Footer (optional)

What each listing shows

Group into sections by type Work mode Deadline Source name Score Description Why the AI said yes or no

Description length, in characters Longer descriptions are cut here. 260 is about three lines. Include the listing’s own page text This costs nothing to produce — Verify already opened each page and kept the text, so no extra fetch and no extra AI call is involved. It costs message size: pages average about 9,000 characters, and Gmail hides anything past roughly 102 KB behind a “view entire message” link. Watch the estimate under the preview.

Preview

Saved searches & alerts

Click a name to apply it. Alerts email you new matches automatically.