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I was falling out of love with Gmail, and at that time I was reading their site or a post regarding them on HN. Once I saw brong's Github branch as mentioned,

by 616c 13y ago

I was falling out of love with Gmail, and at that time I was reading their site or a post regarding them on HN. Once I saw brong's Github branch as mentioned, I was sold and got an account. https://github.com/brong/cyrus-imapd https://github.com/brong/cyrus-imapd Their public communication, blog, old Slashdot interviews, everything else are a gold standard to me. Bought a VPS to stand up my own backup Cyrus server. By the way, Cyrus IMAP server has a beta CalDAV and CardDAV integration, where your contacts and calendars are stored in special IMAP folders and then pulled into the proper protocol. Through Fastmail I learned this might be the best self-contained communication platform for me and others. Just a FYI. http://www.cyrusimap.org/mediawiki/index.php/Downloads#IMAP_Server_with_integrated_calendaring_and_contacts http://www.cyrusimap.org/mediawiki/index.php/Downloads#IMAP_...

drfritznunkie 13y ago
Not that I thought being owned by Opera was a bad thing, but now they're completely employee owned again: http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/09/25/exciting-news-fastmail-staff-purchase-the-business-from-opera/ http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/09/25/exciting-news-fastmail-st... So I have high hopes that they'll continue to improve all that core functionality goodness. The CardDAV and CalDAV stuff has been around for ages in Cyrus, but it's always needed a lot of work. I'm happy that the FM team has decided to take it on, even in beta it's been working wonderfully for me. I remember attempting to use KOLAB groupware, which was based on Cyrus, but instead of improving the crappy CalDAV functionality (at the time) of Cyrus, they simply saved all the calendar objects as messages in special folders. Not necessarily a bad thing, but then they made the unwise decision to store the calendar data in a binary blob inside the message, meaning that they couldn't leverage IMAP/Cyrus' native indexing. Which meant that every message in the calendar folder had to be fetched, downloaded and parsed by the client for every view. Ugh, what a disaster. It basically fell over on calendars with more than a couple dozen events on them.

by 616c 13y ago

drfritznunkie 13y ago

Not that I thought being owned by Opera was a bad thing, but now they're completely employee owned again: http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/09/25/exciting-news-fastmail-staff-purchase-the-business-from-opera/ http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/09/25/exciting-news-fastmail-st... So I have high hopes that they'll continue to improve all that core functionality goodness. The CardDAV and CalDAV stuff has been around for ages in Cyrus, but it's always needed a lot of work. I'm happy that the FM team has decided to take it on, even in beta it's been working wonderfully for me. I remember attempting to use KOLAB groupware, which was based on Cyrus, but instead of improving the crappy CalDAV functionality (at the time) of Cyrus, they simply saved all the calendar objects as messages in special folders. Not necessarily a bad thing, but then they made the unwise decision to store the calendar data in a binary blob inside the message, meaning that they couldn't leverage IMAP/Cyrus' native indexing. Which meant that every message in the calendar folder had to be fetched, downloaded and parsed by the client for every view. Ugh, what a disaster. It basically fell over on calendars with more than a couple dozen events on them.