Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderIt's a great idea except that for one person it's going to cost a lot more than buying an account on FastMail (disclaimer: I work there) or any of the other hosting sites (even before you start start thinking redundancy and backups - we have about 10Tb of disk for every 1Tb of pure email quota, by the time you count search indexes and RAID and 3x replication redundancy - two local one offsite) For more than one person it…
For those considering running their own mail server (like me), perhaps a more pertinent dataset is the list of hosters that seem to work without problem (not spam blocked) and those that have proven problematic. If anyone could chime in it would be much appreciated.
I'd be interested to know if there's any evidence that the Big Few mail providers, GMail or Outlook for example, penalise in the spam calculation emails coming from outside their ecosystem. I get a lot of report from people saying that emails from me are ending up in their spam bins, but I can find no reason for it, so the rumour is very seductive. If so, having lots of people set up a "Mail Server in a Box" would…
Source Code: https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 442
- Total comments
- 155
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-09-05 | Mail-in-a-BoxFirst breakout · Best thread | of | 250 | 88 |
| 2015-06-17 | Mail in a Box: easy to deploy mail server in a box | dutchbrit | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-07-25 | Mail-in-a-Box: Easy-to-deploy mail server in a box | nbrempel | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-09-24 | Take back control of your email with this easy-to-deploy mail server in a box | wheresvic1 | 4 | 1 |
| 2019-11-25 | Mail in a BoxLatest 20+ point return | mikece | 172 | 65 |
| 2021-04-09 | Mail-in-a-Box | s_dev | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-06-05 | Mail-in-a-Box | x14km2d | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-05-28 | Mail-in-a-Box lets you become your own mail service provider in a few easy steps | memorable | 4 | 0 |
| 2023-02-23 | Mail in a box. Self hosted email server in a box | xupybd | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-02-25 | Mail-in-a-Box – Take back control of your email | peter_d_sherman | 3 | 1 |