Hacker News with Generative AI: Email

Microsoft blocks emails that contain 'Palestine' after employee protests (theverge.com)
Microsoft employees have discovered that any emails they send with the terms “Palestine” or “Gaza” are getting temporarily blocked from being sent to recipients inside and outside the company.
Verizon is sharing customers email addresses (verizon.com)
Our Privacy Policy describes the information we collect, how it is used and disclosed, your choices about uses and disclosure and your rights under certain privacy laws.
Working with Git Patches in Apple Mail (2023) (btxx.org)
I recently covered how to work with git email patches in Evolution on Linux, so I thought it would make sense to walk through a similar workflow for those using Apple Mail on MacOS. The idea is essentially the same, with just a little extra work involved.
Outlook stores email in Microsoft Cloud – what you need to know (runbox.com)
Many of our users have long relied on Outlook as their email client, but recent changes to how data is managed raise important privacy and control concerns.
Letsencrypt will kill SMTP server auth following Chrome CA policy change (wildeboer.net)
Ask HN: Email Provider for Main Account? (ycombinator.com)
Which email provider would you recommend for your main account? (Banking, government + other important stuff)
E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper (buttondown.com)
Email, for just under three years, came in a blue-and-white envelope from the United States Postal Service.
Email Forwarding for Your Domain (mailwip.com)
Receive and send emails using unlimited addresses from your own domain
Gmail to SQLite (github.com/marcboeker)
This is a script to download emails from Gmail and store them in a SQLite database for further analysis.
From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." (hayman.net)
Now that I’ve been retired for a couple of days, I think I can finally tell this story of how I was – very briefly – steve@next.com
Gmail will soon stop support for the 3DES encryption cipher for incoming SMTP (googleblog.com)
Starting May 30, 2025, we will no longer support the Triple Data Encryption Standard (3DES) for incoming SMTP connections.
Ever wondered why Gmail search fails to find text you're sure is present? (emaildiscussions.com)
Ever wondered why Gmail search fails to find text you're sure is present?
Show HN: Zero (YC X25) – AI native email client that manages your inbox (0.email)
Zero is an AI native email client that manages your inbox, so you don't have to.
Using Trusted Protocols Against You: Gmail as a C2 Mechanism (socket.dev)
Socket’s Threat Research Team uncovered malicious Python packages designed to create a tunnel via Gmail.
Show HN: Prettier Email Headers (emailheaders.dev)
From the makers of Jelly
ART·E: how we built an email research agent that beats o3 (openpipe.ai)
Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail (techcrunch.com)
A court in India has ordered the blocking of encrypted email provider Proton Mail across the country.
Ask HN: Is there hope for Microsoft 365 support? (ycombinator.com)
The company I work for (25friday.com) has been hit with what seems to be a keyword blacklist on Microsoft 365 email.
Show HN: Rplyr – send emails to AI (rplyr.com)
Say goodbye to repetitive email tasks. Rplyr lets you access AI over email — so you can automate workflows and focus on what matters
The NNCPNET Email Network (complete.org)
From 1995 to 2019, I ran my own mail server. It began with a UUCP link, an expensive long-distance call for me then. Later, I ran a mail server in my apartment, then ran it as a VPS at various places.
I Do Not Recommend Proton Mail (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
A review of my experience from using a paid Proton Mail account over the past years and why I decided to leave the service after broken promises, technical failures, and ethical disappointments.
AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive (buttondown.com)
“Email has largely stayed the same,” wrote Gmail product manager Aakash Shaney in 2019, while the web rapidly evolved around it.
Notion's Lies Sunsetting Skiff Mail (ycombinator.com)
With the announcement of "Notion Mail", here's a reminder that after Notion acquired Skiff Mail in early 2024, their entire product line was sunset and, despite promising[1][2] email forwarding and support would remain functional until 2025 for trapped users that couldn't immediately access their accounts, both turned out to be complete lies.
Notion Mail is out (notion.com)
Meet Notion Mail, the inbox that organizes itself, drafts emails, and schedules meetings any way you'd like.
Apple's plan to train AI on your emails (neowin.net)
According to a new report by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is quietly shifting gears on its AI game, and it hopes to do it in a way that stays true to its privacy-first philosophy.
Ask HN: Magic links are bad UX and make people's lives worse. Change my mind (ycombinator.com)
Click login, get sent an email link that you have to first wait to be delivered (sometimes takes a full minute, sometimes you have to resend the link).<p>Sometimes the link goes to spam, sometimes you have to search for it like a needle in a haystack of other notifications.<p>Sometimes you are not logged into your email on that device, or it's a small screen that makes it a pain.<p>Maybe it's my mother, and she now has to go find where
Forward Email: Technical Whitepaper [pdf] (forwardemail.net)
DigitalOcean blocks SMTP ports 465 and 587 since last month (digitalocean.com)
SMTP ports 25, 465, and 587 are blocked on Droplets to prevent spam and other abuses of our platform.
Gmail E2E is as terrible as expected (sapka.pl)
Google announced that end-to-end encryption would be coming to Gmail.
AT&T Email-to-Text Gateway Service Ending June 17 (att.com)
Starting June 17, 2025, you won’t be able to send or receive texts using email.