I find this attitude weird. Sure, it would be naive to think using an email
host who use libre software magically makes your email more secure (it
doesn't for all the reasons discussed in the threads about OMB), but if early
adopters and software freedom champions don't support services like
I can't see why how encrypting user data prevents them making backups of it.
Or are you just saying that they don't do backups for some other reason, and
it's a downside of their service.
All this talk about hiding your email from the spooks misses the point. The
most important reason to use a libre host for email (or any other
server-based system) is the same as the reason for using a libre OS - to
support and encourage increased use of free code software, and reduce
e, openmailbox, I'd rather use google, at least you know what you get.
hi Tonlee,
Seems you got to pay 4-5 euro /month if you want access to your e-mail by
using Thunderbird.
Openmailbox account stopped working in thunderbird. It wants to import a new
certificate. A certificate with a shasum I am not able to verify is
legitimate.
Hhttps://www.openmailbox.org/webmail/ has worked. It does not anymore.
Not Found The requested URL /webmail/ was not found on this
It seems more complex than I thought. The config makes it even less likely to
be used by friends/family.
And you're right again, I didn't think about the hardware. One more downside.
My perspective is always the random normal user who's privacy conscious. To
me it would be the rare case of
If you burn the tails ISO to read-only media, then yes you'll have to
configure it each time. It is also possible to simply use the command line.
You could add your private key to the ISO before burning it, but I wouldn't
do that.
I wonder how many people actually use untrusted computers
I see, so for personal machines (including a Replicant phone, though there's
no guarantee the private key can't be accessed from the modem), problem
solved.
So Thunderbird + Enigmail on Tails would need some config on each boot? Too
bad, as if it wasn't annoying enough to reboot from a
With IMAP, it is possible to have encrypted e-mail available on multiple
devices as long as you copy you're private key to them. So, if you have a
desktop at home and a laptop both could be configured to read your e-mail.
For something like Tails, an encrypted flash drive with your private
Thank you very much for understanding the situation. :)
Another problem of a personal mail server is that the most common webmails
might reject it as spam.
For other uses than email, a personal server is still a great idea.
Ah, right, the title isn't encrypted, I forgot.
Regarding privacy, security and reliability, encryption seems to still be
I meant to write that it is *not* difficult to encrypt the messages on the
server (if you have control of it). I would imagine that most e-mail
providers encrypt communications between servers. No real reason not to.
I was talking about running your own server and using a client. The only
I'm an OpenMailBox user, and I really hope that they get themselves together.
I recommended OpenMailBox to a friend of mine a month or so ago, and that's
when I found out that registration was closed. It's sad to see that not much
progress has been made; this should be investigated for sure.
Interesting. So the most common mail providers might not allow encrypted
emails to pass?
To make sure we're talking about the same method, I'm talking about using
something like Thunderbird instead of the Webmail.
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A few more remarks:
* Both persons need to
They are a French website, and sometimes their English translations are
lacking. I wouldn't be suspicious.
Encrypting the e-mails on the server is difficult. Encrypting the messages
between the servers is doable as well, but the other server must be
configured to allow it as well. End-to-end encryption is quite difficult but
not because of technical reasons. You have to convince the person you're
I mostly avoid using non-free emails, but as for Openmailbox.org?
It is better than some, but I got a weird email from them one day...
about needing authorization for something or my account would be deleted... I
am not sure if it was a scam or not, but it was in french so I am highly
They store your information from what I remember in their forums due to what
was french law for a year I believe...
I don't understand why a server isn't an option for you.
To me:
* people I communicate with are 99% on non-free providers. So my emails are
compromised anyway.
* from there, Openmailbox/mail server vs Gmail/Yahoo, not much of a
difference, I suppose. Well, free software on a personal server
Thank you. I didn't know that.
In light of new information, I'm going to attempt to gift some posteo
accounts.
UsernameV we're talking one lousy euro a month and they've been around for
seven years:
https://posteo.de/en
Posteo actually offers the option of paying totally anonymously by cash. You
can send your cousin to pay or even send cash in an envelope. The also offer
encryption of all data on their disks (with the downside of no back up)
I think the (little) money serves a very good purpose.
I like posteo.net. I haven't used it much because I do have an OpenMailbox
and I also have a grandfathered Riseup from my activist days that I use very
sparingly.
Calmstorm, do you know something negative about them that I don't?
They do cost money, but it's negligible. The problem is more
my only problem with tutanota, is that they support proprietary operating
systems more than free ones and that they have no debian or ubuntu support.
also, it would be better if they used AGPL3 as their license, but mostly it
is the first two sentences of this post that make me not happy
I use Tutanota. It pretty much satisfy the requirements pointed out by
yourself. Give it a chance if Openmailbox keeps suffering the same problems.
Important note: I'm *not* involved with OpenMailBox.
I also noticed that, thanks to some mass missinformation that carried on
to most of the OpenMailBox users and donors, it's now very hard to make
the donation mark pass the 30%. As a user, and unemployed poor, I'm
trying my best to attract more donors, but I think I'll have to make
some drastic
Hi, Registration is disabled for everyone, you better conctact the
openmailbox team.
It is probably best to ask the openmailbox people. This is the forums for
Trisquel, and we don't run the openmailbox site.
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