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   Choosing a License for Mailpile 1.0(mailpile.is)

   30 points by HerraBRE 11y ago|33 comments
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   by HerraBRE 12y ago

   Yes, I'd love to get some constructive criticism to work with (we do listen), but that's not helpful.
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   by HerraBRE 12y ago

   The UI will become more AJAXy before 1.0, we're doing it progressively instead of making the whole thing JS only. So we get the UI working as a static page, and then progressively enhance. If you want to see it in action, you can try `
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   by HerraBRE 12y ago

   Thanks! That one already had an issue filed: https://github.com/mailpile/www.mailpile.is/issues/9 ;-)
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   by HerraBRE 12y ago

   Thanks for reading, and thanks for the feedback! HTML mail is certainly a problem - editing HTML in that way is not nearly as easily done (nor reversed) as plain text. This is a loose end in the current proposal. Like many techies, I'm
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   by HerraBRE 12y ago

   Thanks, I'll file this as an issue on our site's tracker.
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   by HerraBRE 12y ago

   I suggested ZIP simply because it's so widely supported, it's built into the stdlibs of many higher level languages and most operating systems have GUI tools to browse the contents. I don't know of any other containers that a
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   by HerraBRE 12y ago

   Mailpile is an e-mail client, first, other things second. Maybe we'll support other protocols, such as TextSecure, at some point. I hope so, actually! :-) Note that PFS generally applies to a communication channel, not the way a messag
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   by HerraBRE 12y ago

   There have been some security flaws related to compressing data before encrypting it - I don't know if those apply here. But if they do, well, compression is actually optional in the ZIP standard. This would need to be checked carefull
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    by HerraBRE 12y ago

    Fair question. :-) I mentioned those users as one group that was impacted, not as the be-all-end-all target audience. If you re-read the relevant section you'll see I spend more words worrying about Mailvelope and Google E2E users. The
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    To PGP/MIME or not to PGP/MIME(mailpile.is)

    45 points by HerraBRE 12y ago|23 comments
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    by HerraBRE 12y ago

    Interesting question. :-) I think the biggest issue may be the fundamental fact that Mailpile is software that has to run on a computer somewhere - people are getting so accustomed to just getting service for free on the web, that many will
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    by HerraBRE 12y ago

    Oh, another thing - if punishment needs to be carried out, please don't penalize DoubleMalt. The post didn't have the offending bits in it when he posted the link, I added those later. Penalize me, it's my project and I'
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    by HerraBRE 12y ago

    Oops, my bad. I'll update the blog post.
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    by HerraBRE 12y ago

    Yes, everything under Beta on the roadmap "should work" in the release. Of course, there may well be bugs, but that's a pretty accurate description of where we think we are right now.
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    by HerraBRE 12y ago

    For all questions security-related, check our Security Roadmap: https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile/wiki/Security-roadmap The DIME story is largely "wait and see", but we've reached out to Lad
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    by HerraBRE 12y ago

    We have not built packages for Linux yet, but we will definitely do so for the 1.0. Getting the Windows and Mac packages shipped by Beta was a priority so we could get feedback on how they behave and have time to track down issues before th
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    by HerraBRE 12y ago

    Thanks for giving it a spin! Our native platform packaging and integration is very new, so I'm afraid this isn't a huge surprise. If you can find any details about what is going on there, posting to our Github issue tracker would
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    by HerraBRE 12y ago

    Hello everyone! I'm part of the core team, I'll take a look here now and then to answer any questions folks may have.
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    by HerraBRE 13y ago

    My apologies if this is slightly inflammatory, but in my opinion preferring BSD-style licenses over copyleft licenses is both selfish and elitist (or classist, if you will). It's an attitude which says that as long as the elite class o
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    by HerraBRE 13y ago

    As long as you are happy with the terms GMail is offered under, and the feature set of the software, you are right, in the short term it probably does not impact your freedom in a way you are likely to notice. It may even enhance your short
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    A Pound of Security (best practice SSL ciphers with Pound)(mailpile.is)

    3 points by HerraBRE 13y ago|0 comments
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    by HerraBRE 13y ago

    Oh, I am sure PayPal are doing what they believe to be in their best interests. However, I think you overestimate their competence. The people we spoke with on the phone didn't even know what Open Source software is, let alone have an
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    by HerraBRE 13y ago

    You are glossing over one important point: PayPal has a financial stake in keeping money within their network for as long as possible. For every month they keep $X within their network instead of releasing to the rightful owners, they have
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    by HerraBRE 13y ago

    Sure, but we have no reason to give those details to PayPal, and very good reasons not to. Edit: Delaying payments by months is not acceptable or reasonable. There are tax implications (we have to deal with multiple jurisdictions) and oppor
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    by HerraBRE 13y ago

    Note that they had previously stated that they wanted to release the funds as slowly as possible. Asking us to provide a detailed budget is basically asking us to justify that and give them a timetable so they can withhold the maximum amoun
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    by HerraBRE 13y ago

    IndieGoGo offers PayPal as an option. Many people prefer it, for various reasons. The funds donated via. credit card directly on IndieGoGo are still available to us.
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    by HerraBRE 13y ago

    IndieGoGo actually support direct credit card donations, but a lot of people asked for PayPal as an option and we relented. So donating via. IGG actually works just fine - we have obviously disabled the PayPal option.
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    by HerraBRE 13y ago

    Or, you could just do PGP/MIME + SMTP over Tor hidden services living on home computers, and not invent any new protocols at all. :-) This allows p2p delivery with strong encryption and anonymity of the transmission, while the message
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    by HerraBRE 13y ago

    Our goal is to create something you install on your desktop or laptop. Think Thunderbird, not Squirrelmail. We do happen to be using web tech for the UI, but that doesn't mean it has to live in the cloud.