Oh, still nonFLOSS. Dissapointing.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2021
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Even with things they promise to open source, there's always too much waiting involved when it should all be open from the start.
iirc they still haven't undergone a security audit on that, and they're obviously focused on security, given their target audience...
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wikipedia says it's under MIT licence which is compatible with GPL, so it must be FLOSS.
All server side is nonFree.
wow, I didn't know. searched a bit and yeah, you're right. their excuse is "it doesn't add trust, because users have no way of verifying what code runs on our servers". bullshit.
but does it matter for email services backed to be foss in practice? the main downside I can see is it makes self hosting impossible, but other than that does it matter?
This is news to me. What email provider(s) do you recommend?
I've never seen great recommendations on this after looking around. Personally I plan on self-hosting, even if it's not recommended..
I've seen Tutonota and Disroot being recommended.
Never heard of Disroot. My Tutanota got deleted because I didn't use it (previously went protonmail)
Disroot is nice. https://disroot.org/en You will get an email alias @getgoogleoff.me for free :-)
(I think for Tutanota and Protonmail for their free tier they both have deletion policy if you don't use it for six months ?)
Wtf, they added that additional domain for real?
Yes, they did! :) It was the winner of a contest. https://disroot.org/en/blog/happy-2020
Wow, I am very disconnected of these updates.
I think I am of the few ones who doesn't participate in the community.
Self-hosting email for the first time is not so easy but it depends on who you want to email with and what your emailing out options are. For example some VPS providers offers limited emailing out options where they work on the outgoing email servers reputation, in that case things should be fine. But wanting to email out via a modem line with dynamic IP address could be a "mission impossible"
The future plan is a VPS that my home server is connected to via Wireguard. Just trying to decide on a provider. Currently thinking ArticHost or BuyVM, but we'll see..
The proton mail app is still not on F-droid. Proton VPN is!
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