[acallaghan]

> if I had any private data hosted by the author, I would be worried now.

Merry Christmas to you as well.

Such negativity for just showing something I knocked up in half an hour. - something that I thought might be helpful, with experiences on how to make it more Gmail like.

Attacking the writing is fine, but insinuating my custody of private data is at question is pretty shitty

[linza]

> Such negativity for just showing something I knocked up in half an hour. - something that I thought might be helpful, with experiences on how to make it more Gmail like.

GP's feedback is direct but quite right imo. I trust the author had only best intentions in mind but "Knocking something out in half an hour" and sharing, but good privacy and security engineering requires probably much more time. Quite frankly, the wording of the article can be insulting even for folks that are working on that problem professionally for several years.

Were it presented differently, it would get different feedback I'm sure. More like "hey HN, i made the first three steps what would be next?" -- i.e. efforts towards trying to understand the problem better.

[hbbio]

It's not negativity. You wrote an article showing you clearly don't understand at all what are the stakes or what you are doing.

What you did is a basic setup which was covered in O'Reilly's TCP/IP book back in 1996. World has changed since.

Please learn from the community here.

[acallaghan]

Docker, cloud volumes, SpamAssassin, Dovecot, ClamAV, fail2ban, DKIM, DMARC. Ask what these are to someone in 1996 and see what you’d get back. The article covered setting all of these up

However my main objection to the OC was attacks on my professionalism. Unless you’re going to defend that, I don’t really care

[linza]

I think the author and submitter got exactly what they asked for by posting something to HN that is by their own admission low-effort as it took only 30 minutes to knock it out. Many of the commenters call this out, since in their opinion the content does not hold up to what the headline promises.

Also, one aspect of professionalism is also to be thankful for the feedback rather than trying to interpret it as attacks.

[acallaghan]

I am the author.

> if I had any private data hosted by the author, I would be worried now.

Is an attack on me personally, nothing about the article. The article also took much longer than 30 minutes to 'knock out' - more like 3 hours all in all

[15characterslon]

I didn't mean to insult you. I think it's great if you're experimenting and I fully support that. It's just that the headline set high expectations and the article reads like this is being used in production, which I would strongly advise against.