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Patrick Nagel
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Patrick Nagel writes Patrick's WebLog, a personal blog at patrick-nagel.net about systems and hardware. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in the HN thread 'Dumped by Google', where one commenter describes a self-hosted Dovecot and Roundcube mail setup. The comment does not address the post's writing, so its subject is inferred from the thread title.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
Dovecot + Roundcube hosted on a cheap VPS, with Thunderbird (on the Desktop) and K9Mail (on Android) as client works pretty well for me. Dovecot 2.2 implements several new IMAP extensions, so you can do serverside fulltext search, threading and push of incoming mail, and with some work[1] it should also be possible to sync your contacts and even a calendar with your server (I must admit though that I haven't tried t…
Comment linking /blog/archives/389
on “Dumped by Google”Submitted Let me buy you an awesome book in exchange for your FOSS contributions as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Heating the Room for Science as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted InfluxDB Newcomer’s Impressions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Impact of ext4′s discard option on my SSD as a story · 1 points
HN discussion