Yikes. If I did need to use Haraka for some reason (why is it better btw?), I'd run it on a high port using an MTA with a long security stability track record (like postfix) as a frontend queueing MX.
I wish this place was a little bit more constructive. As engineers we should try to solve a problem or invent something useful.
It's a good feeling to find good in things, anything.
Just a friendly tip: consider posting it to dev.to[0] (no affiliation); the content seems more geared towards helping people starting out on their dev journey.
Without generalising, HN tends to be more frank in dissecting the
novel aspects of a post.
What are the advantages of haraka over mature MTA solutions? They also work out of the box when installed and yum install / apk add / apt install takes even less time...
This is a pretty worthless article. I can set up OpenSMTP in 10 minutes, and I bet it is more performant, stable, and well designed despite suffering from the lack of “coolness” that Node.js undoubtably excels at /s
Maybe there is some compelling reason to use Haraka, but I wouldn’t know, because the author doesn’t seem willing to bother actually writing a post that contains any non-trivial information.
Moreover, the title is misleading. I was hoping it would be about implementing a simple SMTP server (though 20 minutes is a little tight for that I suppose), which actually would have been interesting, unlike this article.
The last section is really precious: “What would you create with Haraka?”
Oh I dunno, a mail server? I wasn’t aware that email was such a novel and innovative technology that I needed a prompt in order to even consider the infinite possibilities.
Looking at this guys other post, it almost seems like some blog spam MTurk job.. His articles are very short and very bad. One is a summary about graphene, with all the facts lifted off wikipedia, another is about how to use a geolocating service (lemme guess, you make a GET request to their api?), and one is basically about how to create a Digital Ocean droplet..
Could you please not be a jerk on HN? It's against both the letter and the spirit of the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Maybe you know a lot, that's great—but being an asshole more than cancels it out.
If you know more, try sharing some of what you know, so we can all learn. If you don't want to do that or don't have time, it's fine to not post anything. If you think an article is bad, move on to something that you like better. Tearing other people and their work to shreds just poisons the commons.
