The HideMy.world blog
Practical guides on keeping your real address out of databases, taming noisy inboxes, and turning email into structured data your tools can actually use.
Route the emails that matter to Telegram: dedicated addresses, rules that define urgent, and message templates with placeholders that ping instantly.
Regex is fast, free and brittle. AI is flexible, costly and fuzzy. An honest look at where each wins for email parsing, and the hybrid that beats both.
AI agents need email, but mailbox OAuth is a huge blast radius. The least-privilege pattern: one address, a filtered pipeline, structured JSON delivery.
You don't need a workflow platform to automate email. Rules, transforms and delivery channels form pipelines that run themselves: no Zaps, no scripts.
Invoices arrive by email and die in inboxes. Build a pipeline that catches them, extracts vendor, amount and due date, and sends clean JSON to your tools.
Route all your flight and hotel confirmations to one travel@ address, extract booking references automatically, and get a Telegram ping when they land.
AI can filter email using plain-English rules, if you write them well. How to phrase deterministic rules, why vague ones fail, and patterns that hold up.
Turn inbound email into webhook calls your code can consume: payload design, retries, idempotency, and verifying HMAC signatures, with working snippets.
Email is a hostile format: MIME multiparts, odd encodings, inline images. Here's how to turn raw messages into clean, structured JSON you can build on.