Re: [gentoo-dev] Anti-spam changes: proposal to drop spammy mail

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 2:18 AM, J. Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org> wrote:
> On 11 May 2015 15:59:40 CEST, Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>>I'd REALLY like to see a FOSS alternative to Gmail (a good one, that
>>is), and ditto for Google docs (or whatever the latest branding for
>>that is). There is nothing magical about cloud-based services any more
>>than there is anything magical about letting somebody else host your
>>website.  The key is to ensure that the technologies are open so that
>>you aren't bound to a single provider.
>
> Rich,
>
> If you are thinking of a FOSS email provider. Maybe investigate Fastmail?
>
> They use postfix and cyrus. And they also handle a lot of the development of the latter.
>

My mail all goes through my own postfix server and POP/IMAP server
before it gets to Gmail, and I already have an alternative solution
for outbound SMTP for this server.

I was talking about a decent FOSS browser-based MUA.  The only ones
I'm aware of are Roundcube and Squirrelmail, and neither supports
keyboard shortcuts or tag-based mail as far as I'm aware.  Actually,
I'm not aware of any FOSS IMAP implementation that supports tagging -
that is an email can be in more than one "folder" at the same time.
But, I haven't looked too closely into that since without an MUA it
isn't terribly useful.

-- 
Rich