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How to set up your own private e-mail server at home with a Raspberry Pi Server using fully free and open source Citadel (pimylifeup.com)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Many other guides dive deep into 10 plus pages of how to set up such a service with Dovecot, Postfix and a web server all from the command line, but this one is a lot simpler because most of what you need is inside Citadel. Citadel also has calendar, Contacts, Notes, Tasks and chat rooms so can be a good alternative to Google or other providers. Your only cost really is the Raspberry Pi and a domain name if you don't already have one.

You could tweak this a bit further by using your own DNS provider (or alternative to Cloudflare) and considering an external hard drive connected to the Pi for reliability.

See https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-email-server/

#technology #email #privacy #raspberrypi #alternativeto #opensource

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

There's stuff like ethical open source licenses that are literally made so that you can't use them for racism, terrorism, etc. "Ethical" is a bit of a squishy term but it's definitely better than giving free tools to terrorists and nazis

Licenses often include a description so you don't need to read it (mentioning this bc i know some people would be wary of the "ethical" bit and would rather Know everything the license is about), and some people legit read licenses so you can just ask them about it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Yes terrorism is also a bit of a subjective term - just depends on which side you are as the other side calls them freedom fighters. It starts getting very murky as non-harmful includes all "legitimate" armed forces, and in many countries even their police forces. Globally everyone just does not hold the same values, and perspectives differ a lot. Gender discrimination judged in one country is also not seen the same in other countries. Many companies are not very ethical in their business practices (sometimes even governments) which leaves just about everyone sliding down the slippery slope ;-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Yup, I just think it's better to struggle on the slippery slope than to make the slope be fixed at a 90° angle. Stopping some harm is better than making it easier for all harm to occur