Host your own contacts and calendars and share them across devices

Post by gravypod » Mon, Jul 24, 2017, 4:27 PM UTC

kobeya wrote: post #70

gravypod wrote: post #30

Something I've been looking for is a web service and android app that I can self-host that will allow me to read and send SMSs from my desktop. The important thing here is self hosted. I think something like this would be really useful. I've seen services that provide this via a 3rd party hosted service but I don't trust someone at some random company not to read my messages.

> I think something like this would be really useful. I've seen services that provide this via a 3rd party hosted service but I don't trust someone at some random company not to read my messages. ... do you know how SMS works? Specifically that it is sent in plaintext for anyone who cares to listen anywhere along the path? Maybe try Signal. It has a desktop app.

Post by JulienSchmidt » Mon, Jul 24, 2017, 5:01 PM UTC

acidburnNSA wrote: post #42

willhackett wrote: post #23

I've done this before. It becomes tedious to maintain, but I can imagine myself doing it again in the future to allow me to do what cannot be done in the common clouds (iCloud, G Suite, O365). I would love a whitelist-only inbox. I'm sick of spam, marketing mail, etc. I'd like one public email address that catches all the garbage. Then, I'd like a private email address that accepts emails from my contacts, and bounce…

This is really easy to set up using Dovecot Sieve [1]. I set it up the other day to bounce reject messages that had too many swear words as a proof-of-concept for an idea a Facebook friend had about making sure people stay nice in email. The syntax of the server-side filters is a bit strange but there's even a Thunderbird plugin that allows you to edit them from the client. [1] https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Si…

Post by acidburnNSA » Mon, Jul 24, 2017, 5:14 PM UTC

garrickvanburen wrote: post #53

I started with Radicale a few years back (5+?). I found it too brittle, and switched to Baikal - http://baikal-server.com/ . I've been very pleased with Baikal for since the switch (again, 5+)

Post by dhimes » Mon, Jul 24, 2017, 5:33 PM UTC

Silhouette wrote: post #56

acidburnNSA wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use a self-maintained version of the same email stack (Dovecot, Postfix, Spamassassin) and Spam is pretty much not a problem. I train the Bayes filter on my collection of 10,000 spams and a few thousand hams every 6 months and, while I do get an occasional false negative I feel that spam is pretty much fully under control. Self-hosting email is fun you guys!

Self-hosting email is fun you guys! I figured that it would be, but trying to set it up was the single most frustrating thing I've ever experienced running a Linux box, and I never did get anything properly working after many days of trying. The principles seemed straightforward enough and there was plenty of software available, but what I really wanted was to self-host the mail store and IMAP server but send/receive…

Post by rhizome » Mon, Jul 24, 2017, 5:51 PM UTC

Silhouette wrote: post #56

acidburnNSA wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use a self-maintained version of the same email stack (Dovecot, Postfix, Spamassassin) and Spam is pretty much not a problem. I train the Bayes filter on my collection of 10,000 spams and a few thousand hams every 6 months and, while I do get an occasional false negative I feel that spam is pretty much fully under control. Self-hosting email is fun you guys!

Self-hosting email is fun you guys! I figured that it would be, but trying to set it up was the single most frustrating thing I've ever experienced running a Linux box, and I never did get anything properly working after many days of trying. The principles seemed straightforward enough and there was plenty of software available, but what I really wanted was to self-host the mail store and IMAP server but send/receive…