HerraBRE

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by HerraBRE 13y ago
I can confirm we have no marketing department, it's just three geeks with a Twitter account. We are getting press because people think it's an interesting project and because privacy on-line is a hot topic right now.
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
I think you mean Yet Another Open Source E-mail Project.
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
Hey all! Mailpile tech lead here. Just wanted to say THANKS to those of you who helped make this happen so quickly. Improving e-mail security, flawed as the underlying protocols may be, is long overdue. We don't promise perfection, but
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
This is not a SaaS. This is an open source mail client you run yourself. So that's why. :-)
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
This is one of the directions the project could go in, and I personally would like it if that happened. But first we have to build the software, right? :-)
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
a. and b. are actually significantly mitigated by https://pagekite.net/ , which just happens to be my other project. :-) c. might be OK for some, but we don't recommend it. Another solution is to run Mailpile in multip
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
We have actually put a fair bit of thought into this, but the pitch has to be relatively focused. Publicly speculating about things which may change is not a good way to manage expectations. One core question is: how big a team will we need
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
We will be doing this legally, which means paying ourselves salaries and paying taxes etc. etc.
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
This is a desktop mail client. It is also a web-mail you can run on a server somewhere if you so choose. It depends on how it is deployed. Contrasting Mailpile with other tools, one difference is that the basic design is that of a search en
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
Sounds like those are out of scope, that's just down to correctly configuring the SSL server. But yeah, I hope we correctly configure our SSL servers. ;-)
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
Contributing increases the odds we'll be able to make the test suite. ;-) But yes, the code is very immature, right now it is basically a proof-of-concept in the middle of being refactored into its first sensible iteration (as mention
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
Yes, very good point. :)
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
Yes, at least to begin with, we are not providing people with domains or e-mail addresses. IMAP, POP3, or run your own SMTP server...
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
I have actually been working on Mailpile "altruistically" for a while, but sorely missed the ability to dedicate myself to it full time. Thus the fundraiser.
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
Big, big topic. I suggest you follow our Twitter account or something, we'll probably be blogging about this later on in the campaign.
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
No plans at the moment. The design of Mailpile strongly implies a per-user index, so sharding by user is a very easy way to scale this up.
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
This is actually answered in the FAQ on our Indiegogo campaign: http://igg.me/at/mailpile Mostly, the reason we do things the way we do, is because one of our primary goals is to make an end-user desktop app. Packaging
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
Of course, but that's months away. We gotta write the software first!
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
This is something we have debated extensively. Our main goal is to improve privacy and security on-line - giving cloud providers yet another free tool with which to build proprietary services and lock in more users and their data feels like
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
Brennan was working on getting some screenshots uploaded. We are obviously very busy reloading everything at the moment. ;-)
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
Thanks! The idea is you run Mailpile on a machine you control (it is an MUA), either your laptop (and connect to localhost) or a home server like a plug computer or something like that - basically somewhere where you feel comfortable storin
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
This is still largely an open question. But there are some interesting possibilities for those who actually make their Mailpile visible on the public web - Mailpiles could talk to each other and exchange data of this sort. But ideally thing
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
It is a custom search engine, written in Python. It works surprisingly well, most queries are answered under 200ms and tens of milliseconds are common once caches are warm.
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
It's not on the roadmap yet, but that is why we want to build a community, to see what people want.
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
Yes, making the web mobile friendly is definitely on the list of things to do. Native apps may come later, once the APIs have stabalized a bit. The current IMAP support is functioning as an IMAP client, we haven't started work on the s
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
Haha, noted. Thanks.
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
Absolutely. I'm the lead developer - I spent almost 6 years working on anti-virus and anti-spam, so rest assured we know this is a big deal. :-) There is alot of quality stuff in the open source world already which we will be able to b
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
That is one of our main long-term goals. It's too early to say exactly how we would do that, but odds are there would be some sort of helper service in the cloud which relays and handles DNS and such. We need to get the client built fi
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
Bjarni here, lead dev. Happy to answer any questions.
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by HerraBRE 13y ago
Haha. :-) Localtunnel and PageKite overlap, but the focus of the two projects is actually very different. Localtunnel is just for quick one-off tests. Although PageKite can do that as well, our (I am the author) real goal was to make self-h

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