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Show HN: Mboxreader – easily view your Gmail Takeouts
2 months ago
- Complete privacy with zero installations required.
- Drop a file to regain control of your inbox.
- Converts Google Takeout's unreadable .mbox into searchable, threaded emails with attachments.
- All processing happens entirely within the browser tab.
- Users can try a sample archive first before committing.
Self-host your mail server
2 months ago
- Self-hosting an email server is possible in 2026, despite warnings about blocklists and delivery issues; email is inherently open and decentralized.
- Home hosting requires a static IPv4 address (not blacklisted), no CGNAT, ability to set PTR records, and open ports (25, 143, 465, 587, 993); short internet outages (<40% downtime) are handled by sender retries.
- Recommended mailserver software includes docker-mailserver (easy Docker deployment), Stalwart, Mailcow, or manual setup; essential DNS records are SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MX, and PTR.
- Spam is effectively managed using rspamd with a local LLM (e.g., Gemma 4 12B) for email classification, providing Gmail-level filtering without relying on cloud services.
- Choose Thunderbird as a mail client; maintenance involves auto-updates, backups, and recovery testing. Self-hosting gives control and supports data sovereignty.
Apple 'Hide My Email' vulnerability reveals peoples' real email addresses
3 months ago
- Apple's Hide My Email service allows iCloud+ users to send and receive emails using random, unique addresses to keep their personal email private.
- Vulnerabilities discovered in Hide My Email enable attackers to uncover the hidden real email addresses behind these aliases.
- The issues were reported to Apple over a year ago, but as of June 30, 2026, they remain unfixed despite Apple claiming fixes on two occasions.
- Researchers realized the vulnerabilities' severity and scope are greater than initially thought, leading to public disclosure to inform users of the risk.
- A timeline details reporting and follow-ups from June 11, 2025, to June 30, 2026, with Apple acknowledging but not effectively resolving the vulnerabilities.
- To protect user privacy, exploit details will not be disclosed until fixes are implemented, but disabling new address creation and notifying users are suggested interim measures.
- The disclosure aims to allow users to account for risks when using Hide My Email and calls for Apple to collaborate openly to resolve the issues promptly.

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Show HN: Mboxreader – easily view your Gmail Takeouts

Self-host your mail server

Apple 'Hide My Email' vulnerability reveals peoples' real email addresses