Overview of the german afd email leak(erik.gdn)
4 points by zinngr | 1 comments
A notebook-style analysis of the leaked 'hexane archive', covering ten AfD party mailboxes and WordPress databases of afd.de and about 140 other party websites.
#email on Hacker News
36 stories tagged email, newest first.
Show HN: I wrote an email app that accepts only one sender per inbox(clova.email)
97 points by edpin2000 | 75 comments
Landing page for Clova.Email, an email service offering infinite inboxes that lock to a single sender, temporary inboxes, and prefix-based auto-created aliases.
Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain
113 points by nikanj | 72 comments
Tell HN post warning that third-level .name domains will be permanently removed next year and asking how others migrated, with discussion comments.
Dear User, email is here to stay(github.com)
3 points by cachrevolt | 0 comments
GitHub repository for machtiani, an open-source tool; the linked page text was not captured.
Fastmail offers EU data region(fastmail.com)
484 points by groomlake | 277 comments
Fastmail blog post by CEO Bron Gondwana announcing an EU data region option for storing customer email data in Europe.
What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant(fernandoi.cl)
343 points by cuchoi | 156 comments
Blog post recounting how over 2,000 people sent 6,000+ emails trying to get the author's OpenClaw AI assistant to leak a secrets file, which never leaked.
Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left(moddedbear.com)
1115 points by speckx | 750 comments
A personal blog post explaining why the author left Gmail after being annoyed by unrequested AI-generated message summaries and draft replies.
Cloudflare Email Service(blog.cloudflare.com)
420 points by jilles | 193 comments
Cloudflare blog post announcing the public beta of Cloudflare Email Service, positioned for use by AI agents.
My Google Workspace account suspension(zencapital.substack.com)
322 points by zenincognito | 182 comments
A Substack post recounting how the author's Google Workspace account was suspended as 'hijacked' after he accessed it from overseas, despite DNS-verified domain ownership.
Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?(spencermortensen.com)
319 points by jaden | 93 comments
An article comparing email address obfuscation techniques for websites and their effectiveness against spam harvesters; the page returned a 403 Forbidden error.
Leaving Google has actively improved my life(pseudosingleton.com)
389 points by speckx | 215 comments
Personal blog post describing the author's decision to leave Google services after AI was added to Search and Gmail, and how it improved their life.
HackMyClaw(hackmyclaw.com)
346 points by hentrep | 177 comments
HackMyClaw is a challenge site inviting users to extract secrets from Fiu, an OpenClaw email-reading AI assistant, via indirect prompt injection over email.
Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users(atha.io)
577 points by thatha7777 | 396 comments
Blog post by Ian Atha describing how a major European payment processor (Viva) sends non-RFC-compliant email that Google Workspace users can't receive.
What's up with all those equals signs anyway?(lars.ingebrigtsen.no)
605 points by todsacerdoti | 176 comments
Blog post by Lars Ingebrigtsen explaining why stray equals signs appear in leaked email excerpts, tracing them to quoted-printable encoding mishandled during conversion.
We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)(web.mit.edu)
618 points by giancarlostoro | 104 comments
Trey Harris's classic sysadmin story about a university department that couldn't send email farther than about 500 miles, and the debugging that explained why.
How we lost communication to entertainment(ploum.net)
651 points by 8organicbits | 365 comments
Blog post by Ploum arguing that online communication tools have been turned into entertainment platforms, eroding genuine communication.
Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email(news.itsfoss.com)
327 points by sebastian_z | 104 comments
It's FOSS News article reporting that the German state of Schleswig-Holstein has completed migrating its email systems from Microsoft to open source solutions.
The email they shouldn't have read(it-notes.dragas.net)
345 points by miniBill | 142 comments
A blog post on the IT Notes site recounting an incident involving an email that unauthorized parties read, touching on email privacy and server administration.
Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP(support.google.com)
582 points by sumanep | 324 comments
Gmail Help Center article announcing that starting January 2026 Gmail will drop support for Gmailify and fetching third-party email via POP.
Cloudflare Email Service: private beta(blog.cloudflare.com)
638 points by tosh | 514 comments
Cloudflare blog post announcing the private beta of Cloudflare Email Service, a service for sending and receiving email from its developer platform.
Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague(nytimes.com)
464 points by blinding-streak | 306 comments
New York Times article on Microsoft suspending the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor amid US sanctions; the capture shows a captcha page.
From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."(blog.hayman.net)
1041 points by mattl | 264 comments
Blog post by a recently retired Apple employee recounting how he briefly had the [email protected] address and received a 'Great idea, thank you' email from Steve Jobs.
My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster(bentasker.co.uk)
391 points by acdha | 142 comments
Ben Tasker's blog post recounting how he engaged with and baited a romance scammer who contacted him via spam emails.
I do not want AI to "polish" me(thebloggess.com)
351 points by doodpants | 221 comments
A humorous blog post by The Bloggess about an AI "Polish" writing feature popping up in her email client and why she doesn't want AI rewriting her words.
Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option(recyclebin.zip)
659 points by gepeto42 | 467 comments
Blog post by Guillaume Ross arguing that email magic login links are useful but should not be the only sign-in option, responding to 404 Media's defense of them.
Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header(neilzone.co.uk)
383 points by wasmitnetzen | 310 comments
A blog post describing how the author added a Postfix header to outgoing mail to try to stop Microsoft Outlook users from sending 'reaction' emails.
The curious case of the missing period(tjaart.substack.com)
502 points by the_real_tjaart | 178 comments
A Substack post investigating why an email sent to one customer was missing a period, tracing the cause to SMTP protocol quirks.
Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email(gabrielsieben.tech)
348 points by gjsman-1000 | 250 comments
Personal blog post by Gabriel Sieben brainstorming what a redesigned second-generation email system and protocol could look like.
I turned my open-source project into a full-time business(docs.emailengine.app)
552 points by andris9 | 208 comments
Blog post by Andris Reinman, author of Nodemailer, describing how he turned his open-source email project EmailEngine into a full-time business.
Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service(proton.me)
611 points by jlpcsl | 311 comments
A Proton blog post arguing that Microsoft's new Outlook app collects and shares extensive user data with Microsoft and advertising partners.
Roundcube open-source webmail software merges with Nextcloud(phoronix.com)
324 points by mikece | 232 comments
Phoronix news article reporting that the open-source Roundcube webmail project is merging with Nextcloud, which will invest in its development starting 2024.
Learn and Test DMARC(learndmarc.com)
332 points by timsneath | 52 comments
Learn and Test DMARC is an interactive site that walks users through how DMARC, SPF and DKIM email authentication work by sending a test email.
Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)(web.mit.edu)
1065 points by dvrp | 182 comments
Trey Harris's classic sysadmin story about a statistics department that could not send email farther than about 500 miles, traced to a sendmail misconfiguration and timeouts.
ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails(jfloren.net)
355 points by floren | 214 comments
Blog post describing how ProtonMail's bridge rewrites outgoing emails, breaking PGP/MIME signatures made with third-party clients like FairEmail and Claws.
JMAP – a modern email open standard(jmap.io)
958 points by tambourine_man | 329 comments
Homepage of JMAP, an open IETF-published API standard for modern email clients and applications, with specs and developer guides.
Is Gmail killing independent email?(tutanota.com)
416 points by thunderbong | 403 comments
Tutanota blog post arguing that Gmail's dominance threatens independent email providers; the captured page shows only the site header and footer.