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Interesting article. However, I would have liked if the author would have gone more in-depth on what type of applications could be build on top of SMTP by givin
by pan69 15y ago
Interesting article. However, I would have liked if the author would have gone more in-depth on what type of applications could be build on top of SMTP by giving some examples and why SMTP would be more beneficial than e.g. HTTP for those applications.
- BenjaminCoe 15y agoHey, I don't mind going into some more detail here: With attachments.me, we've been looking at using special ephemeral email addresses for categorization: * You can post to an email address with your company name and a folder in it, and the attachment will automatically be categorized within that folder. Here's some other ideas: * Email an image to an email address, with dimensions in the body, the email is stored with an image resized to the given dimensions as an attachment. * Email an to an email address and have the data show directly on your Tumblr account. Email is a big part of a lot of people's workflow, and I love the idea of building hooks on top of it -- a good email client is pretty much a given regardless of whether someone is on their smart phone, computer, or whatever. I still see HTTP as a big part of the equation, but with SMTP services performing more and more interesting actions behind the scenes.