[Dovecot] Public free (libre) mailbox hosting service for everybody!

[Simon Brereton]

On 28 Feb 2013 08:26, "אנטולי קרסנר" <tombackton at gmail.com> 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