Show HN: Varmail.me – A tiny, free API for emailing yourself

varmail.me

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In case anyone is curious, the code for this is on github: https://github.com/tdeck/varmail

Sounds cool, I've wanted an easy way to get webhook-to-mail for services etc for a while! (without using a transactional mail provider that might be used for spamming if something goes wrong)

It would be nice to have the documentation available without a signup though. I fed it a mailinator-address, but that's just unnecessary work.

Thanks for trying it out! You're right, I need to have more on the front page. I just added a quick explanation, but I'll have to work on my copywriting skills. In retrospect, it seems a bit shady to make people type their email in to see what this is, but all I'll ever use your emails for is 1) to send login/activation emails and 2) to send things you POSTed to your endpoints.

I built this out of frustration with those little edge cases where you want an app or script to be able to notify you by email, but don't want to leave your Gmail username/password lying around (often necessary with SMTP) or bother signing up and verifying a domain with one of the general-purpose transactional email services. I'm already finding lots of little uses for this.

thanks for moving the example!

This combines very well with https://hook.io/, maybe you could get them to put a reference to your project in the docs for people who want e-mail notifications.

Very clever. I've used `echo 'foobar' | mail myname@gmail.com` before, but this sounds nice too. Are there particular advantages you'd highlight with this method over that?

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