On 28 Feb 2013 08:26, "אנטולי קרסנר" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've written a response to someone else, explaining some issues you > mention here. > > A little note on UI: we don't need web UI. It's a good addition but > unnecessary for the beginning. There are many free-software desktop mail > clients. Some are big and complicated, but some are very simple and very > easy to use, just like Gmail is. So UI is not a critical issue right > now, we just need to be able to easily configure a mail client, e.g. > Evolution, to work with the server. > > And it's great to hear people like the idea and want to help! With hard > work and cooperation, everything is possible! > > - Anatoly Krasner > > On ד', 2013-02-27 at 18:39 -0500, Bennett Todd wrote: > > The operational cost is non-zero. Besides hardware, which must include > > backups, and enough physical diversity to offer availability, an email > > server is an attractive nuisance; spammers and other criminals > > constantly attempt sabotage and burglary, and it takes ongoing > > manpower to attempt to hold them temporarily at bay. > > > > And unless you put hard caps on message sizes, people will use their > > mailboxes as backup drives, or just email their vacation movies to > > family, and you'll be buying drives, and hence replacing them, often. > > > > I love the idea, I'm fond of running mailservers myself. But I've gone > > Google. > > > > As for software, I won't pitch my favorite components to this wide > > list, but I know how to find all the pieces I'd need except the > > webmail front-end for the utterly non-technical. > > > > If you limited the scope to IMAP and SMTP, both SSL authenticated, it > > wouldn't be too hard to spec out. > > > > Host on AWS EC3 or the like, then find an affordable solution to spam, > > and you can sell to anyone who doesn't expect their email to be > > private from governments. > > > > Anybody know of a well-engineered and maintained SSL library? > >
cesmail.net anyone? Simon
