docs(alternatives): re-measure the self-hosted proxy shelf, 2026-09-10 - #436
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Re-ran the 2026-08-27 competitive scan against GitHub directly instead of memory. Two of five previously-listed projects are still dead, one (JustinIven/smtp-oauth-relay) turns out to have been credited with commits that were actually an unmerged dependabot branch - its real last commit is three weeks older than pushed_at suggested. Adds two projects the prior scan missed: rustmailer/rustmailer (504 stars, active, broader scope) and debold/GraphMailer.NET (2 stars, but the most actively developed project on the shelf and the closest match to our own audience of legacy printers and scanners).
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#446) PR #436 sat BLOCKED for 10 days (2026-09-10 -> 2026-09-20): board-review crashed with 'git diff base head' exit 128 once the branch picked up a third commit past its base sha, because fetch-depth 2 only reaches one commit back from the merge commit. changes has the identical base/head diff and the same latent bug, just not yet hit. Both now fetch full history.
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Summary
Monthly competitive review asked for a fresh, measured look at the self-hosted
proxy shelf in
docs/ALTERNATIVES.md(rule 3: a competitor above us getsnamed the same day, with stars, last-commit date, and what it's better at).
(not memory). Three are still dead (SMTP2Graph, ggpwnkthx, oldium, no commit
in 70-130 days).
simonrob/email-oauth2-proxyis still the largest by farbut also 69 days quiet.
JustinIven/smtp-oauth-relaywas credited as "still receiving commits thismonth" - re-checked, its
pushed_atof 2026-09-03 turns out to be anunmerged dependabot branch/PR, not a commit to
main. Its real last commitis 2026-08-12. Corrected.
"oauth2 smtp proxy", "exchange online smtp oauth") instead of ours, per the
standing rule that a search using only our own words hid 15 competitors
before. Found two worth adding:
rustmailer/rustmailer(504 stars, broaderscope, actively developed, shipped Graph OAuth2 support 2026-08-13) and
debold/GraphMailer.NET(2 stars, but 21 real commits in 30 days and theclosest match to our own printer/scanner audience of any project on this
shelf).
No stars were requested or referenced as a target anywhere in this change -
they're reported only as one column in an honest comparison table, same as
before.
Test plan
git diff docs/ALTERNATIVES.mdreviewed line by line before commitrepos/{owner}/{repo}/commits(the commit list itself), not justrepos/{owner}/{repo}pushed_atpython tools/build-llms-full.py --checknow clean (the first pushmissed this regeneration -
docs/llms-full.txtembedsALTERNATIVES.mdverbatim and had gone stale, which is what failed
device-table)BOARD: MERGE - honest, dated competitive comparison in our own docs; no outbound claim to any other repository, no stars requested.
EVIDENCE:
python tools/build-llms-full.py --checkandpython tools/check-facts.pyboth clean after regeneration; every date in the table re-verified againstrepos/{owner}/{repo}/commits, notpushed_at.