"You email client is your editor"
Should be "Your email client...."?
Show HN: Turn an email to a web page
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for your support! "I never got around to turning attachments on because I was afraid of the hosting costs; how do you plan on dealing with those?" As long as users don't delete their posts, we keep them (including attachments) there. If we are running out of storage space, we can add more machines :)
Are you guarding against malicious users who send automated emails containing large attachments?
… like sharing the latest block busters …
Re: Show HN: Turn an email to a web page
#53Cool hidden feature: it obfuscates any email address mentioned in the post.
slippery slope. if it obfuscates this, it implies it is meant for certain types of sharing that would also other things to get obfuscated.
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#54This is a neat idea. It would be cool to somehow allow you to add a list of recipients that should receive the link once it's pinned, but I guess that takes away from the simplicity of it.
like if you receive a mail that was not only to p@mailp.in, you could send the generated link to those people in CC.
I'm not sure what to use this for though. Who would look at the website when it just contains what was in the mail a minute ago anyway?
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#55One request: PLEASE don't use highlighting-pops-up-text add-ins. They immediately get blocked on my end and are an annoying user experience.
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#56Nice! We've been working on a similar project http://jokund.com
You just send an email and any Cc'ed people is subscribed to your blog. Would love some feedback.
By the way, we also open sourced an npm module to handle inbound emails and post them to a webhook of your choice https://github.com/Flolagale/mailin
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#57Does anyone know which library this uses to convert mails to HTML?
I'm wondering because I need something for a devops project that can show spam inline in a webpage. Obviously this is dangerous because it could spread malware so what could mailp.in be using to avoid spreading malware like this?
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#58I'd be curious what your approach is to handling porn submissions, be they legal or not? (i.e. I don't see anything about reporting illegal images, like most gallery-hosting sites have.)
Also how will you handle spam? Just post it regardless unless or until volume becomes excessive?
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#59Great Idea. Can you add a time limit functions on the generated webpage? The generated webpage will be deleted after x number of days.
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#60So I tested this with https://emailprivacytester.com/. I didn't get an automated response with a link. However, I noticed that somebody had viewed the email using an iPhone. So I scanned my logs to grab the referer from the callbacks and it was:
http://mailp.in/dashboard/reply/*ID*
Where I replaced the actual id with "ID". So I copied the ID from that referrer and visited:
It seems you don't strip out quite a lot of stuff, including script tags and meta refresh tags.
If you want to contact me about any of this, my details are at https://grepular.com/#contact (I am the author of https://emailprivacytester.com/ if you hadn't guessed)