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Re:Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in... by jqpabc123 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @04:00PM (#25435194)
Nice simple forwarding service. I need something slightly more complex --- I want store and forward/routing/hub mailbox with API control.

I need API access to obtain sender and destination address of mailbox item and then decide how to dispense with it, either delete, retrieve or forward to a different destination. "Destination" may involve dozens of addresses. Reply address may be changed.

To minimize storage and costs, any item over 24 hours old can be deleted.

Re:Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in... by maitrik on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @02:56AM (#25440124)
Hey we may have something like this. Can you please email me at maitrikvk [at] newtonhq [].com . Would love to have a chat.
Re:Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in... by sanity31415 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @04:03PM (#25435229)
Interesting, may I ask what you would use this functionality for?

Thank you for the suggestion.

Re:Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in... by jqpabc123 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @04:19PM (#25435409)
I want to integrate email management and routing services as part of my client service package.

My clients have a lot of hourly employees that they need to communicate with but for privacy reasons, they don't necessarily want to use a corporate or private email address.

For example, a manager may want to use his private phone to send an email to a group of employees. Any replies would be routed to his secretary at the office --- with all addresses remaining semi-anonymous. My software will handle all this with the help of your service.

I currently have several hundred clients with a total of over 20,000 employees.

In other words, this all strictly opt in --- no marketing.

Re:Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in... by ayewo on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @03:49AM (#25440364)
Although @sanity31415 has offered to get in touch with his 33mail product, there's also the option of standing up a REST API server in front of your mailboxes.

There is an open source product called IMAP API which is available under 2 licenses depending on your needs: AGPL & MIT. It recently had its own Show HN [2].

[1] https://github.com/andris9/imapapi

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25372987

Re:Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in... by sanity31415 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @05:53PM (#25436429)
Very interesting, and probably not difficult for us to implement. Would you mind emailing me to discuss? I'm ian [at] 33mail [dot] com.
Re:Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in... by jqpabc123 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @08:48PM (#25438049)
Will do.
Re:Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in... by StavrosK on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @07:36PM (#25437483)
Sounds like you want Mailgun.
Re:Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in... by jqpabc123 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @11:34PM (#25439097)
I could probably do it with mailgun but there would be a lot of unnecessary data tranfer. In many cases, I don't really care about what is in the body of the email, I just want to re-address and re-direct. I can get the info I need to do this from just the address headers.