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go-guerrilla
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flashmob / go-guerrilla

go-guerrilla

Mini SMTP server written in golang

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What it is

Mini SMTP server written in golang

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 7:56:55 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-01-07 20:52:12 UTC to 2021-04-26 23:14:39 UTC.

012014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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flashmob·Jun 24, 2018
Hi! I run a "copycat" site that perhaps you may be referring to in that post, GuerrillaMail.com (well, actually, I didn't copy it myself, but acquired it from another guy many years back) and also been using Redis to store all incoming mail in memory. RAM is cheap these days and you can find decently priced servers with >= 128GB easy. Haven't moved over to websockets or "chunking" / deduplication yet, but architecture and UI needs an update in that direction to make it more instant. Thanks for some ideas ;-) Actually, like you, I've also hand-rolled most of it myself, replacing the previous guy's architecture. It's been a lot of fun. No frameworks, no bootstrap, just a few dependencies here and there. Started with PHP, but now prefer to use Go for anything new. Also hand-rolled the SMTP server which turned in to a project on its own, http
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