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by craigmccaskill 2mo ago
Yeah, I've found similar issues with even basic tasks like 'draft an email response' which will then populate a md file tagged as draft. Claude will then chastise me a few days later for not sending said draft. I've had
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by craigmccaskill 4mo ago
Yeah, those are similar but narrower scope tools. They do one thing, sit behind a firewall, listen on port 25 and forward SMTP submissions to sendgrid/mailgun's endpoint using an API key. Posthorn adds an HTTP form endpoint (which
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by craigmccaskill 4mo ago
No, Posthorn is outbound only. DMARC aggregate reports come back as inbound mail to whatever address you put in your rua tag and Posthorn has no inbox or IMAP to receive them. Parsedmarc is still the right tool if you want to self host repo
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by craigmccaskill 4mo ago
Awesome! Let me know how it works for you and feel free to open an issue on GitHub!
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by craigmccaskill 4mo ago
If I'm understanding it right, protonmail-bridge exposes an IMAP and SMTP interface to your local mail client so that if you want to use something like Outlook or Apple Mail to talk to ProtonMail you can. Similar idea in that it receiv
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by craigmccaskill 4mo ago
Awesome. This is helpful, thanks. You're doing my market research for me! Seems like most setups only really need 2-3 channels, rather than the ~140 supported by Apprise. Definitely worth me looking into when I start to work towards a
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by craigmccaskill 4mo ago
Yeah, this is a good point I should probably make a bigger deal out of in the documentation. I also have it automated with docker compose/ansible so it just deploys with the apps that need it and starts working. Let me know how it work
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by craigmccaskill 4mo ago
> If I just wanted to enable a few services I'd use AWS or whatever But then you'd be using AWS for those services too. I think there's a meaningful gap between folks who are willing and able to self host their own applica
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by craigmccaskill 4mo ago
Nice. Sounds like a neat way to get the best of all worlds. Self hosted email without exposing your IP, leverage a third party with an existing trusted send reputation but still maintain full ownership of the stack. How much effort has it b
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by craigmccaskill 4mo ago
Fair. I was trying to convey self hosted benefits without the downside of hosting your own MTA. I was also really in my head on the niche and assumed everyone else would get it from the snappy title. Not my intent to mislead.
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by craigmccaskill 4mo ago
Haven't used Apprise, but it looks interesting! My current plans are for Posthorn to stay focused on email. There's enough work here that I think it justifies a dedicated tool. I have some v2 roadmap ideas for things like multiple
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by craigmccaskill 4mo ago
Fair. Don't disagree with anything you're saying here. I should probably tighten up that line. What I really meant to say is that the average self-hoster who just wants to enable a few services to send email doesn't want to r
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by craigmccaskill 4mo ago
Two things to unpack here: 1) Posthorn doesn't host email - no inbox, no IMAP so it doesn't replace what it sounds like all-inkl is doing for you. All it does is take the outgoing messages from any of your hosted/local apps a
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by craigmccaskill 4mo ago
Nullmailer's a good call for a single-app use case. It's basically what I was doing. Posthorn ended up the way it did because I had three different things all hitting Resend at the same time: a contact form, a couple of apps that
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by craigmccaskill 4mo ago
Correct, but not all apps can talk directly to an HTTPS API. Ghost, Gitea, Mastodon, NextCloud, Authentik, Matrix to name a few all only have built in SMTP support. Posthorn listens for that connection from those apps locally and translates
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by craigmccaskill 4mo ago
Not intentionally, but TIL that this turned into an apt reference. The pynchon connection is excellent. My (intentional) reference was to the older mail courier horn.
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by craigmccaskill 4mo ago
Personal mail is the one case I think where hosting your own MTA still makes sense when you want to own the addresses and the data. You still have to solve for deliverability, which is something I hope to never have to do. Posthorn is built
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Show HN: Posthorn, self-hosted mail gateway(github.com)
83 points by craigmccaskill 4mo ago|60 comments
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by craigmccaskill 5mo ago
This is really cool. I'll be checking it out! Seems to solve most of my issues with my current workflow. My primary personal development machine is my WSL ubuntu install on my windows gaming PC and the tooling outside of the mac ecosys
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by craigmccaskill 5mo ago
Outside of the day job (PM at an enterprise SaaS company), I've been building an AI-native CLI for Todoist [1]. Started to solve a personal problem, automating action item extraction from my Obsidian notes, but it's become somethi
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by craigmccaskill 7mo ago
Disclosure: I'm a PM at ServiceNow. Opinions my own. High. SoR systems tend to either be where or are closely tied to wherever the work is being done. It's an incredibly disruptive thing to rip out and change all of the process an
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A bubble that knows it's a bubble(craigmccaskill.com)
141 points by craigmccaskill 1y ago|128 comments
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by craigmccaskill 1y ago
That’s not really fair. I mean, I definitely use AI all over the place, but I think that the writing aspect is an important part of thinking too [1]. I still try to write things out myself when it matters. There’s something about wordsmithi
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by craigmccaskill 1y ago
They have their place but I'm really just trying to avoid the AI house style that has emerged. I'd rather have my writing—AI-assisted or not—reflect how I actually communicate rather than defaulting to patterns that have become ov
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by craigmccaskill 1y ago
You can just add it to your master prompt. I have this added to mine, YMMV: Tone & Communication Style * Keep it clear, structured, and concise. * Maintain a professional tone but make it feel natural and human; avoid robotic or overly
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by craigmccaskill 2y ago
Fair, don't think I disagree with you on these points. I just believe we can do significantly better. In a similar vein, I believe: * For profit motives get in the way of cheap, effective healthcare. Maximizing shareholder value leads
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by craigmccaskill 2y ago
Agree that it's not perfect, but I do feel that we could take 60-80% of the money we're currently spending and fix this and any other issues that come up and get in the way of improved outcomes like the rest of the world does. I d
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by craigmccaskill 2y ago
Kaiser had an income of 4.1B in 2023 vs. UHG's 371.6B in an industry of 4.8T [1]. I'm not sure the point you're trying to make or why it's relevant unless you're asking me to read between the lines on the efficacy o
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by craigmccaskill 2y ago
If there is a silver bullet, the first step would be getting rid of the for profit mechanisms. Instead, because despite data linked in this thread that profit margins are only a few percentage points, Healthcare is an incredibly lucrative f
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by craigmccaskill 2y ago
The same statistics are similar for Medicaid too but also missing the forest for the trees in that for profit seems to be the main differentiator with the US vs. other parts of the world. There are plenty of models around the world that sho

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