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cyrus-imapd
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brong / cyrus-imapd

cyrus-imapd

Cyrus IMAP is an email, contacts and calendar server

4Distinct people
8Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
0GitHub stars
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What it is

Cyrus IMAP is an email, contacts and calendar server

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Where it is used

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:49:33 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-05-22 05:22:55 UTC to 2016-03-14 01:33:30 UTC.

01232013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016

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20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I tried reading the documentation, which is awfully sparse, to see how to use the hash table and if it would be a good replacement for the current one in cyrus-imapd. The destroy function in cyrus-imapd has both a destroy that takes a cleanup function for values, and an interator: https://github.com/brong/cyrus-imapd/blob/master/lib/hash.c I couldn't see how to do either with this library until reading the source code I see you can set a mem_free at creation instead. The documentation didn't really describe that, and the example is actively wrong. I see from the code that there's a way to get the keys, from which you can do an external iterator. It's less efficient, but it works. You wouldn't know that from the documentation though, you have to read the source code.
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