Tag: email

gomjml v0.13.0 Uses Significantly Less Memory Than Before

have just released a new version of gomjml - v0.13.0. Among some small improvements to the parser, the big difference is that future use will require significantly less memory. Sometimes, up to 35-40% less!

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-28-26

Pook-Emu Bee will be taking the weekend off, first for Newsletter Saturday and probably for Sunday, so let us finish this work week strong before I return to my day job. [caption id="attachment_7376" align="aligncenter" width="1028"] I took this photo at the corner of State and Clinton Streets in Brooklyn Heights on the evening of August...

Against “Like Them, but Better”

I came across a short post on @iamgregb (I assume by Greg B) titled "Like Them, but Better." It's Not. In the post, he makes the case against "[a] social media strategy focused entirely on the competition," explaining that "I want to choose your product because it's a unique proposition" rather than because it is...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-07-26

I am a bit late today, but I decided to keep the Pook-Emu Bee links running with four in a row before our off-day tomorrow (Newsletter Saturday). [caption id="attachment_6741" align="aligncenter" width="1008"] I bought sugar and yeast at the grocery store last night.[/caption] 1. Private email is fine, actually (Matthew Guay for Buttondown Blog. August 7,...

Office-Welt: Wie geht es weiter?

Ich habe ganz schön viele Schlagwörter unter diesem Artikel hingeworfen. Es geht mal wieder um die Office-Welt, weil da was passiert ist. Mit Euro Office ist nämlich ein neuer Player am Start. Und nein, soweit ich das beurteilen kann, hat das nichts mit Office.eu zu tun. Aber wenn wir uns alle mal ehrlich machen, ist...

Self-hosting email the hard way from your own routable IPv4 block up

How we refreshed self-hosted Recoil email with our own RIPE-allocated IPv4 block, and deployed Postfix/rspamd/Dovecot to get full SPF/DKIM/DMARC deliverability.

Email, perhaps? 🥺👉👈

I shrimply want to be able to subscribe to blog via email

AoAH Day 17: OCaml JMAP to plaster my painful email papercuts

Building an OCaml JMAP client that runs in browsers and CLI, then using it to build personalised email workflows for taming notification overload.

AoAH Day 16: Vibesplaining JSON Pointers using OCaml/Javascript

Building interactive OCaml tutorials that compile to JavaScript, using agents to generate executable documentation that teaches protocols like JSON Pointer while you code review.

Configure nullmailer with a relay host

"If you want to receive status updates from your Debian or Ubuntu system, you need to employ the help of a mail tansfer agent (MTA). nullmailer is a relay-only forwarding MTA that can be used as an alternative to more complex MTAs such as Exim, Sendmail or Postfix."

Recommended email providers

I'm reasonably confident I've tried every privacy-friendly email provider out there. I prefer some over others and haven't run into any significant issues with any of them.

Despite the warnings, I tried self-hosting my email

I've been moving more and more of the infrastructure I run and host on to my own servers. One thing led to another and nearly all of what I used was there: analytics, photo storage, music, RSS, saved links and on and on. I got the itch to try this with email.

I deleted all of my email filters

Gmail's long had a segmented/tabbed inbox and Apple added their own (to iOS) recently. I've long used manual mail rules to label and sort inbound messages into different folders.

Uncovering A Google Workspace Email From An Alias

How a Google Workspace alias on any domain can leak the underlying primary Google account address, weakening alias-based privacy assumptions.

From Canada with Money - Watch Out for the Old-School Mail Scam

Anatomy of an old-school postal mail scam from Canada that uses USPS Informed Delivery, fake checks, and follow-up domains to defraud recipients.

Email Aliases Are Not A Security Measure

Why using email aliases as a substitute for strong passwords and MFA misunderstands the threat model and provides no real account security.

Zeno Rocha - React.Email, Resend, Dracula Theme

Zeno Rocha reveals the journey from creating the beloved Dracula Theme to building Resend and React.Email for modern email development workflows.

Contact Form Send Email From Site with Fastmail

What a catchy title! So, I thought it’d be a good idea to completely move away from using Airtable. I used Airtable for my short URL service I created and for various config options for the Let’s Work Together page on my site. I moved them all to...

Switching from Brevo to Buttondown

Ok, so, back at the start of the year, I switched from Revue (remember that? 😅) to Brevo (Send In Blue at the time) and made a concerted effort to use it as I paid quite a premium for it! There was some fun around setting up DKIM records for the...

Workflows: handling inbound email on Fastmail with regular expressions (now featuring ChatGPT)

I've been using Fastmail for years now and have explored a number of different approaches to handling mail. I've approached it by creating rules targeting lists of top level domains, I've gone with no rules at all and a heavy-handed approach to unsubscribing from messages (operating under the idea that everything warrants being seen and triaged).

Migrating to Fastmail

So you want to migrate over to Fastmail for your email — here's how you can go about doing so as seamlessly as possible.

Newsletter, Untethered

There’s no real reason you have to use a platform like Substack to send email. If you want to get into making a newsletter of your own, understand your options.

Big Email Energy

Why your favorite email newsletter (not Tedium) always gets cut off by your favorite webmail client. (It may be all the tracking stuff in the links!)

Centralise GNU/Linux email delivery like it's 2020

The technological side of Email has always occupied a bittersweet corner in my nerdy heart. In this article I dive a bit in the history of SMTP and share a simple but effective solution that I currently use to rationalise system and users' email delivery for a few of the Linux systems I manage.

The Email Appliance

The story of the MailStation, an information appliance that didn’t do much, really, except send email. That, somehow, makes it even more interesting today.

The Inbox Pioneer

For more than 25 years, this newsletter author has been snarking wise about weird news. Here’s the tale of This is True, one of the first inbox success stories.

New Emails, Old Tech

How HTML helped, then hindered, the evolution of email, or why all those fancy marketing emails you get in your inbox still rely on HTML tables in 2019.

Fake Elf News

Back in 1999, the viral game Elf Bowling gained an unfounded, false reputation as a piece of malware and spyware. It was viral, but it wasn’t a virus.

A Eulogy for Eudora

The early graphical client Eudora was how people checked their email in the ’90s. But in the end, only the power users stuck around. Here’s what you missed.

On Security, Exploratorium, and Phishing

How URL shorteners help phishing attacks slip past less-technical users, drawn from the recent Exploratorium incident in San Francisco.

Release Of Hummingbird - Distribution List Converter

Hummingbird is a sample app that uses EWS and Active Directory APIs to migrate Exchange distribution lists into Office 365 Outlook Groups.

Exploring OS X mail clients

I've been using Fastmail for over a year now and have been exploring email clients the entire time I've been a subscriber. Until recently, the best client I've been able to find has been Fastmail's web app itself (whether that's in the browser or in a Fluid instance).

Fastmail in Fluid.app

I've spent the last few months bouncing around OSX mail clients. I went from Mail.app to Airmail, to a Mailmate trial, back to Airmail and then back to Mail.app. Now, however, I've finally settled on a mail client: Fastmail 's web interface in a Fluid instance.

Front on email

I would gladly trade Hangouts, GroupMe, WhatsApp, Line et al. for a unified, open chat / messaging standard.

Sorting email using aliases and plus addressing in Fastmail

I subscribe to a number of mailing lists and, up until recently, had been using individual server-side rules to sort all incoming messages from those lists in to a specific folder. However, as the number of lists I was subscribed to grew, adding and maintaining individual rules became increasingly tedious.

Leaving Google Apps for Fastmail

I recently began a process of re-evaluating the web services I use, the companies that provide them and an evaluation of where I store important data. I had used Google services extensively with Gmail handling my email, my contacts synced through Google contacts, calendars in Google calendar and documents in a Google Drive (I had used Google Reader extensively but switched to a Fever installation following Reader's demise).

Fixing broken spellcheck in Thunderbird 24

MoD Email Subjects with AppleScript

Automating military email subject line formatting with AppleScript for Mac Mail

Who to host with (domain names, web space, SSL, DNS)

I'm sometimes asked who I recommend buying web infrastructure from. Here's my list based on my personal experience: Domains | SSL | DNS | Shared hosting | Dedicated hosting | Transactional email | Virtual servers Domain names: Namecheap Almost all of my domains are hosted with Namecheap. They're simple, have a super-fast web interface, a straightforward API, and have never messed me around. Most importantly, they're cheap, so I never have to regret a purchase. I transferred my domains from G

Pushing The Limits Of Windows Phone With EmailComposeTask

Sending file attachments through Windows Phone EmailComposeTask by Base64-encoding the byte array and embedding it in the message body.

Unencrypted IMAP Connection Is A Bad Idea - Here's Why

Why unencrypted IMAP transmits credentials and message contents in plaintext over the wire, and the case for switching mail clients to SSL/TLS.

Using Producteev to manage overbearing Inboxes

Direct messaging in a social web architecture

This post is the third segment in my series on an architecture for the social web. Previously: How social networks can replace email, which is a non-technical approach to the issues, and my follow-up describing how to build a social web architecture using available technology today. So what about direct messaging? In my previous post, I described content notifications in the social web as being Activity Streams updates in response to requests signed with an OAuth key. Each individual contact w

Activity Streams and OAuth: a social web architecture

My previous post was a response to Gartner’s prediction last month that social networking would replace email as the “primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20 percent of business users.” In it, I named some properties that would need to be held by any social networking system that would successfully replace email. * Ease of use * Ubiquity across devices * Platform, service and infrastructure independence My argument boiled down to the following statement: Email has succeeded

How social networks can replace email

The analysis firm Gartner just released five key predictions for social software: 1. By 2014, social networking services will replace e-mail as the primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20 percent of business users. 2. By 2012, over 50 percent of enterprises will use activity streams that include microblogging, but stand-alone enterprise microblogging will have less than 5 percent penetration. 3. Through 2012, over 70 percent of IT-dominated social media initiatives will fail.