Switchboard
Infrastructure
email processing server
SHOW HN2014
92points
37comments
#307of 2,272 in 2014
Top 14%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
8 positive, 23 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 31 comments about the project. Thread score +0.26.
Idea: 5 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Useful foundation that saves significant effort building email tools
From 2 comments
I did a project like this a few years ago and here are my takeaways: 1. Building on top of IMAP is very difficult. It's not a technology that is really designed for the mobile…
buf on HNThis is a really neat tool, and I look forward to using it. I can think of a number of uses, already - analyses of mailbox activity, statistics and metrics collection,…
fit2rule on HN
Open source is a key advantage over context.io
From 2 comments
I worked on an email application for a year that was on top of imap. It was slow as hell. How does switchboard get around that? On another note, I think context.io provides a…
sherm8n on HNFor Switchboard's intended task of as-they-arrive email processing, speed is not a huge issue. That being said, there are plans for using more than one IMAP connection to…
jtmoulia on HN
Objections
Building on IMAP is difficult and slow
From 2 comments
I did a project like this a few years ago and here are my takeaways: 1. Building on top of IMAP is very difficult. It's not a technology that is really designed for the mobile…
buf on HNI worked on an email application for a year that was on top of imap. It was slow as hell. How does switchboard get around that? On another note, I think context.io provides a…
sherm8n on HN
Requests
Threading support
From 2 comments
I did a project like this a few years ago and here are my takeaways: 1. Building on top of IMAP is very difficult. It's not a technology that is really designed for the mobile…
buf on HNThat article is a classic, and is used by most people I've talked to implement threading if they can't rely on the IMAP server supporting the THREAD extension [1]. However, it…
makeshifthoop on HN
Clients in more languages
From 1 comment
Looks great. Any future plans for implementations or API in other languages?
joshdance on HN
Questions
How it differs from Lamson
From 1 comment
Does anyone know how this compares to Lamson (which has been around for quite some time) ? [1] http://lamsonproject.org/
sandGorgon on HN
Where it sits relative to Postfix and Dovecot
From 1 comment
I think I haven't clearly understood where to use Switchboard. In my normal mail stack (postfix, dovecot) where would Switchboard be placed?
soupdiver on HN
Alternatives named
Lamson
From 1 comment
Does anyone know how this compares to Lamson (which has been around for quite some time) ? [1] http://lamsonproject.org/
sandGorgon on HN
context.io
From 1 comment
I worked on an email application for a year that was on top of imap. It was slow as hell. How does switchboard get around that? On another note, I think context.io provides a…
sherm8n on HN
Apache James
From 1 comment
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Lamson enables those hooks/workers as well - but integrates with an FSM and a queuing mechanism (Celery) to get this done. Additionally, there is…
sandGorgon on HN