On Sat, 23 May 2015 07:16:10 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 2:18 AM, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > > On 11 May 2015 15:59:40 CEST, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> > >>I'd REALLY like to see a FOSS alternative to Gmail (a good one, that > >>is), and ditto for Google docs (or whatever the latest branding for > >>that is). There is nothing magical about cloud-based services any more > >>than there is anything magical about letting somebody else host your > >>website. The key is to ensure that the technologies are open so that > >>you aren't bound to a single provider. > > > > Rich, > > > > If you are thinking of a FOSS email provider. Maybe investigate Fastmail? > > > > They use postfix and cyrus. And they also handle a lot of the development > > of the latter. > > > > My mail all goes through my own postfix server and POP/IMAP server > before it gets to Gmail, and I already have an alternative solution > for outbound SMTP for this server. > > I was talking about a decent FOSS browser-based MUA. The only ones > I'm aware of are Roundcube and Squirrelmail, and neither supports > keyboard shortcuts or tag-based mail as far as I'm aware. Actually, > I'm not aware of any FOSS IMAP implementation that supports tagging - > that is an email can be in more than one "folder" at the same time. > But, I haven't looked too closely into that since without an MUA it > isn't terribly useful.
Sylpheed supports filters which allow you to have e-mails in multiple directories based on arbitrary user-defined filtering. It supports IMAP also, though I never use it as I prefer POP3 and SMTP. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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