On 2026-05-03, Matteo Davide Emanuele Pefano - [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > I got an idea! > > A lot of user are displeased of their email providers: a lot of GUI > complicancy, useless CPU usage, AI integrated with force, and probably > in a while the majority providers will require a mandatory smartphone > for confirming account (we know how it goes). And setup an own server is > very difficult and probably a waste of time for a single account. > > Wouldn't be a great idea to provide for the BSD users email accounts > that consent to simply configure via mutt or terminal client, upon > an economic contribution? It could be created a new domain like > @contribs.openbsd.org (or bsd in general). This for sure can consent > OpenBSD to grow and ca be free many users from the prison of email > providers. > > I'm sorry if my english is not perfect, but that is not the point!
No, it wouldn't be great, for many reasons. If you don't want to self host, maybe look at fastmail or migadu, they are both good and afaik bullshit-free. -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
