Re: [gentoo-dev] Anti-spam changes: proposal to drop spammy mail

[J. Roeleveld]

On 11 May 2015 15:59:40 CEST, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
>On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:37 AM, C Bergström <cbergstrom@×××××××××.com>
>wrote:
>> Sorry to shoot and run, but I think you're trying to tackle this
>> problem in the wrong way. The problem isn't to drop the mail. The
>> solution is to change email hosting providers. As a non-profit I
>> believe Google hosted apps would be an option (free).
>
>In general we try to stick to our social contract, and that means
>trying to avoid depending on proprietary technologies such as gmail.
>
>Now, I could see just using a FOSS-based IMAP/SMTP/POP provider,
>perhaps which allows things like forwarding and such, which allows us
>to have a copy of all our configuration and such in case we want to
>migrate.  I'm not super-familiar with the wordpress.com model but
>something like that also seems reasonable - we leverage donations of
>hosting services but we aren't bound to anything proprietary and have
>the ability to migrate off.
>
>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.

Not sure if they would fit in with the rest, but I would trust them sooner then Google.

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Joost 
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