Maildown

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email cli

SHOW HN2019

98points
21comments
#491of 2,195 in 2019
Top 23%of 2019 by points

How HN took it

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4 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score +0.08.

Idea: 3 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful use case for markdown email from the CLI

    From 2 comments
    • Why is it "sadly"? I would say that it is happily a wrapped around SES. There are use case for using mkdown in email and this tool helps address those use cases. Good job OP!
      gauravphoenix on HN
    • It seems like the benefit is in sending markdown email from cli. I'd actually love to be able to do this now that I think about it (I'm sure there's ways to do this already)
      sb8244 on HN
  • Clean one-liner interface

    From 2 comments
    • That's pretty much it. Maildown reduces this process to a one liner, however
      chris140957 on HN
    • Except for the Markdown part, this command line looks very similar to the most minimal old Unix email interface. (Anti-spam measures effectively ended that, and now we need to…
      neilv on HN

Objections

  • Just a thin wrapper around AWS SES

    From 2 comments
    • sadly just a wrapper around Amazon AWS SES
      0x006A on HN
    • I feel this unnecessarily complicates things. If you want to send emails via SES, why not just use something like https://www.sendwithses.com or https://moonmail.io/
      jmdjmd on HN
  • Unnecessarily complicates sending email

    From 1 comment
    • I feel this unnecessarily complicates things. If you want to send emails via SES, why not just use something like https://www.sendwithses.com or https://moonmail.io/
      jmdjmd on HN

Requests

  • Support other email backends beyond AWS

    From 2 comments
    • I'm planning to add support for other email backends. For me, AWS makes the most sense as it's basically free for 99.9% of the population with its 62k free monthly email limit
      chris140957 on HN
    • Sure, I'm already planning to add other backends as an alternative to AWS. Feel free to add a note to issue #7 and I'll get on the case
      chris140957 on HN
  • Add sendmail/SMTP support

    From 1 comment
    • Nice project! Can I offer a suggestion? Add support for goold old sendmail. Every email provider (Mailgun, Sendgrid, SES and others) have SMTP support and sendmail instructions.…
      old-gregg on HN

Questions

  • Whether AWS SES free tier applies to existing accounts

    From 3 comments
    • Do you know whether the "62k free monthly emails limit" of the free-tier is available to existing AWS accounts, or a new AWS account must be created to enjoy free-tier billing?…
      sah2ed on HN
    • I believe its 62k free monthly emails for anyone, regardless of how long you've had your AWS account Source: https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/
      chris140957 on HN
    • Sounds like new and existing accounts, but only if the email originates within AWS EC2: > When you call Amazon SES from an application hosted in Amazon EC2, you can send 62,000…
      molecule on HN
  • Whether SES handles queueing and deliverability

    From 2 comments
    • Do you have to do your own queueing to make sure you're not sending too many emails all at once and they get marked as spam? Or does SES handle that for you? And if it doesn't,…
      onlyrealcuzzo on HN
    • AWS handles that stuff for you. You can use SNS to monitor stuff like deliverability
      chris140957 on HN

Alternatives named

  • sendwithses.com

    From 1 comment
    • I feel this unnecessarily complicates things. If you want to send emails via SES, why not just use something like https://www.sendwithses.com or https://moonmail.io/
      jmdjmd on HN
  • MoonMail

    From 2 comments
    • I feel this unnecessarily complicates things. If you want to send emails via SES, why not just use something like https://www.sendwithses.com or https://moonmail.io/
      jmdjmd on HN
    • Seems the tool mentioned in this post is more for transactional email. But I wanted to comment on moonmail. Looks like that is for newsletters. I think https://sendy.co is sort…
      cloudmanic on HN
  • Sendy

    From 1 comment
    • Seems the tool mentioned in this post is more for transactional email. But I wanted to comment on moonmail. Looks like that is for newsletters. I think https://sendy.co is sort…
      cloudmanic on HN
  • pandoc with mailx

    From 1 comment
    • What is a markdown email? Is it a mail body written in markdown, using the unprocessed markdown for the text/plain part, and generating a html part from the same? Pretty sure you…
      e12e on HN

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