Postman
Dev tools
command-line email sender
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
4 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score +0.03.
Idea: 1 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Looks useful and easy to use
From 1 comment
This looks really, really useful, and easy to use. One feature-request: a flag to include an attachment. It's probably an edge-case, but I've recently taken over running an…
koralatov on HN
Abstraction of programmatic email is helpful
From 1 comment
This is awesome! I'm loving all the new services/software that allow programmatic handling of email, I feel like that's one place where abstraction really helps.
krrishd on HN
Objections
Name collides with getpostman.com
From 1 comment
Name collision with http://www.getpostman.com/
voltagex_ on HN
Plain sendmail or shell loops could do the same
From 2 comments
why this over a cat | sed | sendmail < bcc distro_list?
feralmoan on HNI use 'cat list | while read -r addr; cat text | mail $addr; done', which pretty clearly extends to filling in a template by using sed instead of cat and reading multiple…
saurik on HN
Requests
Support attachments
From 1 comment
This looks really, really useful, and easy to use. One feature-request: a flag to include an attachment. It's probably an edge-case, but I've recently taken over running an…
koralatov on HN
Support multipart MIME composition beyond HTML and text
From 2 comments
Can you put this in your README? Side question: says the tool is meant to send "html emails"; can it not also just do string replacement in any composed mail message, like a…
peterwwillis on HNRight now it only explicitly supports HTML and text emails because it composes the multipart MIME message itself. Pull requests are welcome!
zachlatta on HN
Per-recipient file contents injected from CSV
From 2 comments
Cool! For a slightly different scenario, do you think there's a clean way to use postman to manage larger bulk emails with similar and different paragraphs other than trying to…
bdamos on HNHmm, what if you could specify file names as a field in a row and have them automatically read and injected as the field? -- Example: I have the following CSV: ```…
zachlatta on HN
Questions
Can it do string replacement in existing MIME messages?
From 1 comment
Can you put this in your README? Side question: says the tool is meant to send "html emails"; can it not also just do string replacement in any composed mail message, like a…
peterwwillis on HN
Better bulk templating for paragraph variants?
From 1 comment
Cool! For a slightly different scenario, do you think there's a clean way to use postman to manage larger bulk emails with similar and different paragraphs other than trying to…
bdamos on HN
Alternatives named
Mailgun-based GUI tools
From 1 comment
So a friend and I built something very similar that hooked up to Mailgun and had a GUI interface. Spinning up instances of these for clients proved very lucrative for their,…
joshmlewis on HN
GNU Mailutils
From 1 comment
And for the purists among us, the GNU Mailutils package. http://mailutils.org/
616c on HN
yaml-mailer
From 1 comment
Cool! For a slightly different scenario, do you think there's a clean way to use postman to manage larger bulk emails with similar and different paragraphs other than trying to…
bdamos on HN
cat, sed and sendmail shell loops
From 2 comments
why this over a cat | sed | sendmail < bcc distro_list?
feralmoan on HNI use 'cat list | while read -r addr; cat text | mail $addr; done', which pretty clearly extends to filling in a template by using sed instead of cat and reading multiple…
saurik on HN