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Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP

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Re: Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP

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Post by grey-area »

What the use case apart from commercial spam here? If you even have one, elucidate it clearly and make this service impossible to use for sending spam emails impersonating humans.

As one example do what you could do to prevent spam, humans should have to opt in to receive email from this service. If it is useful they will and this is in fact required by law in many jurisdictions.

Otherwise your servers will be blacklisted for illegally sending spam and you will deserve it.

Re: Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP

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Post by replwoacause »

geekone wrote: post #90
replwoacause wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any hosting services with email you'd recommend? Are you talking about a service like Fastmail or something?

maybe tangentially related but i've found cloudflare's email routing useful to just send emails to blah@customdomain.com sent to blah@myemail.com. i'm not sure if it's limited to domains registered with them though.

Thanks, I’ll have to check that out. All my domains are with them anyway so this could be just what I was after!

Re: Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP

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Post by echoangle »

replwoacause wrote: post #86
echoangle wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get a domain, get webhosting that includes an email server, now you can generate unlimited emails from whichever program you want. And the email reputation will probably be the same as with this service.

Any hosting services with email you'd recommend? Are you talking about a service like Fastmail or something?

I am using a webhosting plan from Netcup for my email:

https://www.netcup.com/en/hosting

I got it during a sale so I’m paying 1€/month for 1 domain and 40 GB of storage.

Re: Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP

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Post by replwoacause »

echoangle wrote: post #94
replwoacause wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any hosting services with email you'd recommend? Are you talking about a service like Fastmail or something?

I am using a webhosting plan from Netcup for my email: https://www.netcup.com/en/hosting I got it during a sale so I’m paying 1€/month for 1 domain and 40 GB of storage.

Thanks I’ll check into this as well. One of my requirements is being able to generate addresses programmatically, not sure if the NetCups service supports that or not. But either way, that’s a good deal!

Re: Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP

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Post by echoangle »

replwoacause wrote: post #95
echoangle wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am using a webhosting plan from Netcup for my email: https://www.netcup.com/en/hosting I got it during a sale so I’m paying 1€/month for 1 domain and 40 GB of storage.

Thanks I’ll check into this as well. One of my requirements is being able to generate addresses programmatically, not sure if the NetCups service supports that or not. But either way, that’s a good deal!

They use plesk and that seems to have an API so maybe you could do that. I just use a catchall email address to receive and use one to send. To send from more you need to create users or add addresses to users in plesk so you would probably need the API.

Re: Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP

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Post by adisingh13 »

fny wrote: post #69

> The internet was made for humans exclusively, designed to keep machines out by default. The internet is also not made for humans. For years I've wanted something like this for e2e testing or personal scripts (cron etc) and your UX is by far the simplest. I love AgentMail. It's made email dead simple for agents and testing any paths for email. I even have a /agent-mail skill I use for when I want a design doc or art…

we extensively rate limit and prevent outbound sending until an agent has been verified by a human :) more detailed in OG post

i appreciate your feedback and thanks for using agentmail!

Re: Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP

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Post by adisingh13 »

bookernath wrote: post #74

WorkOS is launching auth.md which offers a generic version of this for allowing agents to sign up for services in general, and I think their security approach is a little bit better thought out

i love what workos is doing and i also spoke at their event already. we think this is complementary - we're not setting out to create a new standard, we're giving better access to what already exists.

Re: Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP

#100

Post by Alex_toani »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #41
adisingh13 wrote: post #38

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Appreciate the concern Mike, and I actually read your email complaining, which helped us ship this next feature. We have a "sent via AgentMail" footer being added soon to outbound emails to identify emails coming from LLM's. We also are working on adding more robust checks and LLM-based filtering to prevent messages which contain spam or outbound-like copy. Re; AgentMail next to Claude, we're working on stateful inbo…

Re "sent via AgentMail" - that's good to hear, but I hope it's not the entire planned text, as "AgentMail" will mean nothing to most people that receive an email from your service. It wont indicate that the email was composed by an AI rather than a person, which is the information that needs to get across.

What if a people send email via te agent and using agent mail? writing by the agent but aproval by human.
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