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I also like that Thunderbird exists, I don't use it, but my wife does. That said, if you want a web-hosted client for standard email, why not give self-hosting
by NoGravitas 10y ago
I also like that Thunderbird exists, I don't use it, but my wife does.
That said, if you want a web-hosted client for standard email, why not give self-hosting RainLoop a try?
- brightball 10y agoAfter reading about rainloop I could see wanting to run it locally, but as soon as you put it on a VM somewhere you're create a very public access point for all of your email accounts if that server gets compromised aren't you? Seems like creating a weak link on purpose.
- E6300 10y agoIt's no less safe than running a desktop email client and leaving that computer up 24-7.
- singlow 10y agoI don't think that's true. A home computer can be firewalled with no incoming connections allowed. Your VM in the cloud has potential attack vectors through your own control interfaces (http/ssh/pop/imap) as well as the hosting control panel. In addition it may be listening for incoming smtp. I might trust myself to configure all of those securely but I'm not sure.
- E6300 10y agoYou don't need to put it in the cloud. Just run it from inside your local network. If you want to access it from outside, you can setup a VPN.
- yhager 10y agoI don't know specifically about RainLoop, but I usually put services like that behind a BasicAuth on the web server. It's a simple but effective way to protect myself from PHP/application vulnerabilities - at a minor annoyance to the users (authenticating twice, every once in a while).