There's also Mailpile, which looks and feels a lot more modern: https://www.mailpile.is/ - unfortunately, the demo seems to be broken at the moment.
Open-source alternatives to GMail
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Re: Open-source alternatives to GMail
#22Why almost all of them look like they were made in the 90's?
Strangely enough, email is a outdated protocol left over from the 90s, with its lack of seamless encryption, no real API standard (JMAP tries), etc... Seems fitting that clients look appropriately outdated.
Re: Open-source alternatives to GMail
#23Why does everyone make these with PHP? Serious question. Maybe it "just works" but all of these projects feel ancient to me because of their stack despite being brand new. Sure as a user it doesn't matter but as the maintainer/administrator I just don't want to deal with it. Modphp? Yuck. We don't always need to use the new new thing all the time but I can't shake the feeling that the same person who runs this is als…
The same goes for forum software, but what bothers me more than PHP is that these things usually only work with MySQL. Is this due to shared hosting providers usually only supporting MySQL and not PostgreSQL, or what is the reason? I honestly don't understand.
Re: Open-source alternatives to GMail
#24I'm really surprised there is no mention of SOGo (http://www.sogo.nu/).
It has a nice mail interface plus calendaring and even provides mobile device integration via an Exchange compatible interface (so your mobile device calendar and email integrates using the Exchange connector).
I've never understood why it does not get more traction (or mention on HN).
Re: Open-source alternatives to GMail
#25Why does everyone make these with PHP? Serious question. Maybe it "just works" but all of these projects feel ancient to me because of their stack despite being brand new. Sure as a user it doesn't matter but as the maintainer/administrator I just don't want to deal with it. Modphp? Yuck. We don't always need to use the new new thing all the time but I can't shake the feeling that the same person who runs this is als…
Projects like this were often started many years ago, back when PHP was the language of choice.
Re: Open-source alternatives to GMail
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Going through the hassle of setting up SPF and DKIM for my domain reduced the amount of spam I get quite a bit.
How do those affect the amount of spam you receive? I thought they were just to make it less likely your outgoing mail would be marked as spam by someone else.
> I thought they were just to make it less likely your outgoing mail would be marked as spam by someone else.
Setting it up can mean that you check these things on the receiving end. Big difference between self-hosting and accepting all e-mails and self-hosting and checking the sender's SPF and DKIM.
Re: Open-source alternatives to GMail
#27Why does everyone make these with PHP? Serious question. Maybe it "just works" but all of these projects feel ancient to me because of their stack despite being brand new. Sure as a user it doesn't matter but as the maintainer/administrator I just don't want to deal with it. Modphp? Yuck. We don't always need to use the new new thing all the time but I can't shake the feeling that the same person who runs this is als…
Is Kite's JavaScript + Python better?
Asking as a noob who started learning JS and Python :-)
Re: Open-source alternatives to GMail
#28There is no open-source alternative to being a sysadmin, and there is no open-source alternative to your sanity.
Re: Open-source alternatives to GMail
#29Why does everyone make these with PHP? Serious question. Maybe it "just works" but all of these projects feel ancient to me because of their stack despite being brand new. Sure as a user it doesn't matter but as the maintainer/administrator I just don't want to deal with it. Modphp? Yuck. We don't always need to use the new new thing all the time but I can't shake the feeling that the same person who runs this is als…
Is Kite's JavaScript + Python better? Asking as a noob who started learning JS and Python :-)
If you're doing JS you might as well drop python and do NodeJS. Or Meteor which is even better
Re: Open-source alternatives to GMail
#30Featuring: PHP, obsolete PHP, commercial software and a project that didn't have any commits in over a year.