Show HN: Personal messaging with a 2-7 day delay
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Show HN: Personal messaging with a 2-7 day delay
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#2Instant messaging has become the standard. The messages I send my good friends have become shorter, and are often based on my expectations of their reply. With TardaMail, I wanted to recreate the letter-writing experience, digitally. Taking more time to write someone without expecting an instant reply can be very valuable, especially in these times of isolation.
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#3How do you prevent spam? You should at least verify the address of the sender.
A favicon would be nice. (I'm using Chrome.)
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#4How do you prevent spam? You should at least verify the address of the sender. A favicon would be nice. (I'm using Chrome.)
Good point, I will push an update with email verification and a favicon in the next hour.
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#5Sortof related: I just wanted to add that many MTA's email servers also support this concept. Using milters or scripts, you can default emails to be stored in the hold queue, then release them based on ingestion time.
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#6Re: Show HN: Personal messaging with a 2-7 day delay
#7Sortof related: I just wanted to add that many MTA's email servers also support this concept. Using milters or scripts, you can default emails to be stored in the hold queue, then release them based on ingestion time.
Cool, I did not know that. Are there any other thinkable use cases of keeping messages in a hold queue for a longer period of time, for this option to exist?
Re: Show HN: Personal messaging with a 2-7 day delay
#8Sortof related: I just wanted to add that many MTA's email servers also support this concept. Using milters or scripts, you can default emails to be stored in the hold queue, then release them based on ingestion time.
Cool, I did not know that. Are there any other thinkable use cases of keeping messages in a hold queue for a longer period of time, for this option to exist?
Some sysadmins/postmasters do this to protect against spam floods. They use cron jobs to hold/release emails after validating the envelope contents using tools like MailScanner. Some use that for intercepting test messages [1] I don't have the links handy, but I have also seen some projects in github that utilize hold queues for managing more granular rate limits based on content rather than destination. Some anti-spam tools will also quarantine messages into the hold queue for review.
[1] - https://serverfault.com/questions/219173/configure-postfix-t...
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#9Re: Show HN: Personal messaging with a 2-7 day delay
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Done!
You are sending a confirmation link to the receiver, but I expected that the sender must confirm the address.
I double checked, and the confirmation links are sent to the sender as you would expect. Please check again and make sure you use the correct fields. If it happens more often, I'll consider swapping the fields, even though this order seems to make most sense looking at several email clients.