Email sending blocked by censorship

“Show HN: I built a 55K-word email marketing knowledge base and Claude Code skill I co-founded SmartrMail (email marketing SaaS, 12K ecommerce customers, acquired 2022). When I left, I no longer had access to the sending data I'd spent years learning from, billions of sent emails, deliverability patterns, things that actually move email engagement Cos' I don't have this data anymore, I built the best thing I could to help with the email marketing I currently do: --- my research pro”

“Can you buy Namma Metro (Bengaluru) QR code tickets without an Indian phone number? QR code tickets for the Bengaluru Metro are, supposedly, available on 10+ apps now . However , my hunt for a method I can use without an Indian number starting with +91 is so far fruitless: WhatsApp chatbot : seems to be completely broken, "Pay Now" doesn't go anywhere. This is more broken than half a year ago, when it took me to a UPI page that refused non-Indian UPI IDs. Official Namma Metro app : region locked”

“Show HN: Captchainbox – make senders work to get into your inbox Hi HN, The one thing AI reliably does is generate noise. Half the tools I see launch are just machines for producing more noise across more channels. And people are starting to see this in the form of emails in their inboxes as spam filters are struggling. There used to be a useful signal in email: the effort a sender put into customizing a message was a rough proxy for how relevant it actually was. AI killed that. Now it's cu”

“Sending emails through local proxy I need to bypass Iran's internet censorship to send emails using R's [code] package. The standard [code] function fails because the regime blocks the default SMTP protocol. My goal: Use local HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxies to route [code] 's email traffic through a local proxy server (192.168.1.50:8080). Current setup that doesn't work: [code] What I've tried without success: [code] What's the correct curl option syntax for setting an HTTP/HTTPS proxy in [code] ? Doe”