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Re: Show HN: A self-hosted email engine

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Awesome. We can never have enough of high quality self hosted software.

As someone who has been out of the PHP game for a long time, is it still a viable choice for new software? I don't have fond memories of the language at that time, so seeing PHP in the demo video poster frame was an immediate mark against pitching this at my company. That made me wonder whether it's a reasonable reaction to have. Edit for the downvoters— this is an honest question and I very much agree that we can ne…

When you can't exactly tell what was bad about PHP, then it may just be an impression given to you from a lousy programmer who would just blame the tools instead or from some messy code which apparently isn't the fault of the language.

What's wrong about it really?

If you're an author of an opensource web app, it's a smart choice to pick PHP to have as much audience as you could get. PHP is the primary candidate for any VPS.

Re: Show HN: A self-hosted email engine

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate a little on that? SES looks reasonable from the outside; what problems does it have that other email services don't?

Not GP but I can give you my experience. SES seems to be a "good enough" solution if you use their API. There are a lot of missing features, such as logging anything other than metadata, which makes it not so useful if you are operating in a regulated industry. The real problems come when you try to use the SMTP gateway. It's quite slow and unreliable and doesn't really work for parallel workloads. The only way to so…

> The real problems come when you try to use the SMTP gateway. It's quite slow and unreliable and doesn't really work for parallel workloads.

Ah, that's helpful to know. I would normally have wanted to use the SMTP gateway as a more portable API, to avoid tying things to Amazon-specific APIs. But it sounds like doing so would add substantial fragility.

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