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Re:Email: Explained from First Principles by OJFord on Sunday February 19, 2023 @08:03PM (#34863706)
Seconded, especially re RFCs. I built/am building on the client/personal user side, and agree they're really accessible. Of course what I've done is still riddled with bugs, and my hours spent on it are few and far between, but it's fun to build something to such a common protocol; have it work and interact with others.

I was finally pushed into getting it off the ground when Fastmail stopped working the way I relied on it (niche/awkward/not documented as explicitly working) a week before my renewal - so I spent long nights getting something usable off the ground with that as a deadline. Extremely satisfying. (Then Fastmail started working as it had again, a day or so before my time was up! >_<)

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Re:Email: Explained from First Principles by KasparEtter on Monday February 20, 2023 @11:09AM (#34869438)
Out of curiosity: What's the "feature" you needed; and what for?
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Re:Email: Explained from First Principles by OJFord on Monday February 20, 2023 @03:21PM (#34872396)
I can't remember exactly what aspect broke - though I think I have notes on it somewhere because I intended to blog a bit about it (not to hate on Fastmail, just to explain what I was doing and how I fixed it) - but it was something to do with relaying email, i.e. delivering it 'envelope to' my Fastmail address, but addressed to another.
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