--------------------------- Software Developer Emeritus Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Sunday, May 3rd, 2026 at 04:17, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. A good one to look at is sdf.org. It's an inexpensive shell account on a system of computers. Just use ssh to connect. They mainly use NetBSD, but also have an OpenBSD computer, beastie.sdf.org. And you can use pine /alpine if you want.
