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Show HN: Maildown – Super Simple Email API
- 0x006A 7y agosadly just a wrapper around Amazon AWS SES
- gauravphoenix 7y agoWhy 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!
- sb8244 7y agoIt 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)
- e12e 7y agoWhat 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 could to that with pandoc and heirloom mailx or something similar.
- chris140957 7y agoThat's pretty much it. Maildown reduces this process to a one liner, however
- benatkin 7y agoI expected infinite recursion in the screenshot :)
- chris140957 7y agoSadly, since I fixed a typo in the readme it doesn't match at all
- jmdjmd 7y agoI feel this unnecessarily complicates things. If you want to send emails via SES, why not just use something like https://www.sendwithses.com https://www.sendwithses.com or https://moonmail.io/ https://moonmail.io/
- chris140957 7y agoNeither of these services is free. Not sure how this complicates things any more - it's a one liner to send an email
- cloudmanic 7y agoSeems 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 https://sendy.co is sort of the same offering but much cheaper (you do have to host it yourself).
- chris140957 7y agoI'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
- sah2ed 7y agoDo 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? Thanks! EDIT: BTW, nice project!
- chris140957 7y agoI 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/ https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/
- onlyrealcuzzo 7y agoDo 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, is there any service that will do this?
- chris140957 7y agoAWS handles that stuff for you. You can use SNS to monitor stuff like deliverability
- onlyrealcuzzo 7y agoWow! That's amazing! What's the purpose of having your own dedicated IP then?
- molecule 7y agoSounds 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 messages per month at no charge. This Free Usage Tier benefit does not expire. https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/
- neilv 7y agoExcept 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 pay service providers.)
- jazzyjackson 7y agoHi I'm really grateful for your open sourcing this just because I get to ogle at how you write your python to interact with AWS SES Thanks!