derekzhouzhen

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by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
Microsoft is not bad now; Gmail is worse. QQmail (from Tencent) is the worst of all. Or you can cheat and use sendgrid or mailgun, but that is like caving to the dark side.
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by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
I have not used that so can't comment. However, it looks like it is on top of IMAP or JMAP. I have >70K mails in my archive. Try that with IMAP and do a search and you will see what is wrong. In comparison, LIV read mails directly o
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by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
> the lack of screenshots in the readme of this ultimately graphical software means you’ve not really presented any ‘proof’ that you’ve improved the situation. I will put up some screen shots tomorrow. > For example, the config goes
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by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
I have >70k emails in my archive, the whole mails and full text index fit in 5GB. The key is to delete all attachments. Also, very few junk mails remain in my archive with my very simple archive rule.
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by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
I pay $5 per month. It is a uphill battle for the first 1 year then the stigma of the ip wear-off. "Bad" IP block is past thing; all reputable blicklist/whitelist/graylist use individual IPs now. I also have proper SPF,
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Show HN: LIV is a webmail front-end for your personal email server(github.com)
62 points by derekzhouzhen 5y ago|66 comments
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by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
Your email operator has access to all your emails, your access time and pattern, end of story. You have no defense against them. It all comes down to how much trust you have. IMHO, ProtonMail is still vastly better than Gmail, which is noth
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by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
SPAM filters are useless anyway. I only filter the shit that don't even adhere to proper SMTP protocol and let everything in. I just mentally ignore SPAM in my inbox. Simple filters in free software don't do much unless you spend
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by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
There are different kind of social medias, like there are 50 shades of gray. Any media that have network effects and a positive feedback loop is a social media. I'd say HN is one of the healthier social medias.
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by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
Thanks for considering it. my email address is derek _at_ 3qin.us. Shoot me an email if you want; I may have more ideas.
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by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
It you are looking for a point and click sort of thing, I think hey.com let you do this. Doing that feels wrong to me though. It only take a split second to go over an useless email; how much time could you waste by missing an important ema
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by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
> If you have other ideas of how to make it more useful before we have enough users - let me know. I have an idea; maybe you can enable people to publish a list of links that are curated by themselves, in the form of a RSS feed. This way
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by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
Of course you can filter any way you can: https://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Sieve_(mail_filtering_language)
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by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
> There's still no good RSS reader; I use feedly, but its load-time puts me off it big time (I've tried plenty of others) If you want a fast, in browser RSS reader I don't think anything can beat mine in load time: https:
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by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
No, blogs are still here. The casual blog readers are gone. Now there are a thousand good static site generators and free hosting in github page, vercel and netlify, publishing a blog has never been easier, at least for the people dare to c
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by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
> The strength of your connections to other feeds and users represents how useful their content recommendations have been to you in the past and they could be used as a measure of how likely their future recommendations will be worth you
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by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
It is deployed here: https://airss.roastidio.us
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Show HN: AirSS: A back end-less RSS reader(github.com)
3 points by derekzhouzhen 5y ago|1 comments
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by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
> What's really missing is an easy way to control your inbox and restrict it to only allow approved contacts. That's a short coming of your email client (including the webmail), not the email services. The whole point of email
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by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
Me too. You will fight a uphill battle with deliveribility to major providers like GMail but it is the price for freedom.
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by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
AirSS: https://airss.roastidio.us It is frontend SPA that works without a backend. It works better with a opt-in backend.
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by derekzhouzhen 5y ago
BTW, the github repo is at: https://github.com/derek-zhou/airss
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Show HN: AirSS – In browser, client side only RSS aggregator(airss.roastidio.us)
1 points by derekzhouzhen 5y ago|1 comments