[57north-discuss] Mail that's not Gmail

[Shell Turner]

Hey Iain,

I actually know of Mailpile, and a version of it is packaged in NixOS -
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/mailpile/default.nix
- I'll send in a pull request to have it updated to the beta version when
I'm feeling a little less dead. (Note that at present, there isn't really
an update schedule, nor a security team or policy for that matter - a
number of packages in the tree are unmaintained.)

Unfortunately, NixOS is a rather developer-centric distribution at present;
making it "normal"-people-friendly would involve writing an automatic
update cron job, as well as an actual installer (at the moment,
installation consists of running several commands from the installation CD,
as well as editing a text file to decide where to put the bootloader).

I'll note that a version of Mailpile is packaged with Sandstorm, pre-alpha
as Sandstorm is - https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2014-07-07-mailpile.html -
this, I believe, is a far better project to push to "normal" people, as it
makes setting up personal web/email/etc servers as simple as installing
apps on a phone. Unfortunately again, installing and managing Sandstorm in
the first place is a butt if one is unfamiliar with administrating Linux
systems, hence my current project to build a NixOS configuration with an
installer, automatic updates, and Sandstorm pre-configured.

Shell

On 14 September 2014 17:07, Iain R. Learmonth <irl at fsfe.org> wrote:

> Hi Shell,
>
> A while ago I backed an IndieGoGo project where some Icelandic people were
> developing a GPG enabled webmail that you can run on a box in your house
> with encrypted storage. They've just made a beta release:
>
>  https://www.mailpile.is/blog/2014-09-13_Mailpile_Beta_Release.html
>
> I can't seem to find it in NixOS, but I'm wondering how packages get into
> it
> and how often they're kept up to date. It would be great to put together
> some sort of guide on how to easily get this set up in a way that "normal"
> people (i.e. people that don't know what SASL is and how you can use it
> with
> SMTP) can get it working.
>
> Iain.
>
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