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gen-smtp
gen_smtp
Erlang2011–2012
gen-smtp / gen_smtp

gen_smtp

The extensible Erlang SMTP client and server library.

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720GitHub stars
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What it is

The extensible Erlang SMTP client and server library.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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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, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2011-05-13 20:31:39 UTC to 2012-08-05 12:59:52 UTC.

012011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 20112011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 20112012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 2012

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
May 20112011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jun 20112011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20112011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20112011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20112011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20112011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20112011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20112011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20122012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20122012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20122012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20122012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20122012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20122012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20122012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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EvanMiller·Aug 5, 2012
Some neat Erlang projects: * ErlGuten, PDF generator: https://github.com/hwatkins/erlguten * OpenCL binding: https://github.com/tonyrog/cl * gen_smtp, SMTP library: https://github.com/Vagabond/gen_smtp * erl_img, image manipulator: https://github.com/evanmiller/erl_img * ErlyDTL, Django template compiler: https://github.com/evanmiller/erlydtl * BossDB, evented database abstraction layer: https://github.com/evanmiller/boss_db * Jerome, RTF/HTML/BBCode/Textile processor: https://github.com/evanmiller/jerome * Cowboy, web server with WebSockets: https://github.com/extend/cowboy * Chicago Boss, full-featured web framework: http://www.chicagoboss.org/ Those are just my favorites, there are many more listed here: http://erlagner.org/ Things I would use Erlang for: * Network programming * Web programming * Sending a lot of emails Things I would
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not use Erlang for: * Numerical programming * Video decoding * Desktop or mobile applications Basically Erlang is really good at receiving, parsing, and sending data, and bad at anything remotely processor-intensive (or graphical). I think this situation might change with Erlang's OpenCL binding (second link above), which lets the programmer skip the overhead of Erlang's run-time and go straight to the CPU or GPU for numerical tasks.
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