Show HN: MailRipper – Inbound email ripping for developers with email pain

Re:Show HN: MailRipper – Inbound email ripping for developer... by taprun on Sunday June 08, 2014 @03:50PM (#7865662)

It's not clear what pain you're solving, or what you system does. I think it has something to do with converting the format of my email, but I'm not sure how that help me.

I'm also not sure why I'd want to give up the flexibility of using my own email address for one on a domain I don't control. Also, if this is a valid pain point, I highly doubt that software engineers would feel this pain any more than a dozen other professional classes. Would accountants not have this pain?

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Re:Show HN: MailRipper – Inbound email ripping for developer... by andrewstuart on Sunday June 08, 2014 @03:57PM (#7865680)

Thanks for the feedback. I guess my question to you is are you a developer who has had to write code to process emails? If yes, then you'd understand the pain of trying to cleanly extract and deal with all the intricacies and complexity of getting data consistently and cleanly out of those emails. Especially if you are processing attachments.

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