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

[Andrew Savchenko]

On Sat, 23 May 2015 07:16:10 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 2:18 AM, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
> > On 11 May 2015 15:59:40 CEST, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
> >>
> >>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.
> >
>
> My mail all goes through my own postfix server and POP/IMAP server
> before it gets to Gmail, and I already have an alternative solution
> for outbound SMTP for this server.
>
> I was talking about a decent FOSS browser-based MUA.  The only ones
> I'm aware of are Roundcube and Squirrelmail, and neither supports
> keyboard shortcuts or tag-based mail as far as I'm aware.  Actually,
> I'm not aware of any FOSS IMAP implementation that supports tagging -
> that is an email can be in more than one "folder" at the same time.
> But, I haven't looked too closely into that since without an MUA it
> isn't terribly useful.

Sylpheed supports filters which allow you to have e-mails in
multiple directories based on arbitrary user-defined filtering.
It supports IMAP also, though I never use it as I prefer POP3 and
SMTP.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko