Show HN: One API for all your SMTPs(brieferl.com)

9 pointsby goldenerfishil y a 10 mois4 comments

https://www.brieferl.com

Hi HN,

I host my own mail infrastructure and don't rely on third-party tools to send my mails. But in a microservice architecture, managing all the SMTP configs quickly becomes tiresome. After a while I'd always have my credentials and settings scattered in application-properties, bash scripts and environment files.

So I've build Brieferl, an app where you can add your SMTP servers and send emails through a single API with a simple JSON payload. You also get logs of when/where emails were sent and HTML previews of messages.

I am interested in what you guys think about this. You can create a free account with just your email, add a SMTP server + API key and start sending. (There is no upsell, or paid plan yet)

This is super early, it works and I made it actually just for myself but a friend told me he‘d also love to use this, so I thought why not ask other developers what they think.

Is this something you’d use? Are there some features that would it more valuable for you? Or is this something only I’ve felt?

4 comments

WhatsNameil y a 10 mois

I'm afraid this will soon be abused by spammers & criminals around the world. I think having a free plan in the space of sending mail is a bad idea and puts paying customers at risk of being disrupted because your IP (-block) landed on someones blacklist.

sligil y a 10 mois

OP's service, as far as I understand, is a MITM proxy. The send emails using your credentials, not theirs.

WhatsNameil y a 10 mois

So it can still act as a proxy for stolen Gmail, Outlook credentials or brute forcing passwords?

goldenerfishil y a 10 mois

Yeah, that's a good point. But I think, why would someone use this to send spam through an API? He'd need to add the SMTP server in our interface and that's just an extra step instead of writing a script that connects directly to e.g. Google's SMTP server.