It would be an interesting experiment ditch the Roundcube or any web UI to decrease the attack surface.
Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email
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Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email
#132I also use this. Pros: super cheap. Cons: UI is bad, so you'll want to access through a client. 1 person shop. Not audited AFAIK.
https://mailbox.org comes pretty close.
Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email
#133An interesting service, and very competitively priced. But for me, my email is fairly mission-critical. It's not something I'm prepared to endow in a one-man shop. I don't mean to offend, but it looks like something that might be used as something of a novelty. Were I to use it, I'd be backing up my email locally.
I've been using purelymail for multiple domains (with low traffic granted) for about ten years. I've never experienced an outage so far. Support has never failed to respond in the under 5 times I needed it.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
ProtonMail has IMAP via ProtonMail Bridge, which handles the decrypt/encrypt step locally - not sure how else it would be implemented. Ideas?
they offer a web client, so, they already have decryption keys for your email. They should just offer IMAPS like everybody else and stop pretending they couldn’t read your email if they wanted to.
They say[1] they only store subject line and to/from addresses accessible to them.
This should be sufficient to implement a web client which does client-side decryption of the content, in which case they indeed could not read the contents.
And they do have the IMAP bridge, I've been using it for a year with Thunderbird without any issues so far.
[1]: https://proton.me/support/proton-mail-encryption-explained
Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is such a remote possibility, at least with Fastmail, that I do not consider it reasonable to implement my own backup solution. If they are going to shut down, it isn't going to occur imminently and without any warning. It's an easy statement to make: "just take a backup". But that requires me to dedicate time to implementing a secure and automated solution (and of course, routinely testing restoring it). I'm no…
It's possible your definition of mission critical just doesn't match up to that of those responding to your comment. If the loss of a set of data would threaten the existence of the company, that's mission critical. While having a sophisticated niche tech partner handle day to day operations of that data is one part of managing the risk of data loss, if one put all their eggs in only that one basket, that would possi…
I think you're right. But I also do not think Purelymail falls in the same camp that Fastmail or Office 365 do, so far as expectations of reliability and business continuity are concerned.
The broader question of whether it is appropriate to independently back up your own data in large scale cloud services need not be answered. It is simply sufficient to recognise the risks are far greater when dealing with a one man operation.
Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email
#136Zoho have a free plan we have been using for years for business, 5 emails, each 5 GB.
Do you have a link? The nearest best I can find is https://www.zoho.com/de/mail/zohomail-pricing.html which is ~12 bucks a year
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your emails aren't being anaylyzed to create a profile about for being used for targeted ads.
Except for all the emails you send to all the other people still using Gmail.
Harder for Google to tie it to you though when you're not using a Google account
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#138Like every last time it was posted. It’s not suitable for anything other than your hobby email domain. If you use your email with your bank, and other critical services I’d seriously not go with a one-person show. > Also, we're in beta https://purelymail.com/about > We're a small company. So small, the "we" is royal. I wish Scott best of luck and I hope one day it reaches there but until it is anything but confidence…
Whenever I come across landing pages I always wonder, how many people are the "we" and "team" really. It feels disingenuous to use these terms under such circumstances, but he's definitely not a minority doing so. It's kinda the norm, wherever we (｡ ◕ ‿ ◕ ｡) like it or not
I think it sounds natural to say "we" in the context of a company even if it's a one-person company, but I just know english as a second language.
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I have heard this a lot of times but self hosting email is one of the hardest things to do , sure if you are masochist then do it , but if you are a working functional part of society , not recommended.
I installed Mailinabox [1] four years ago. There was one annoying upgrade, whose process needs to improved, but outside of that haven't touched anything. Only a couple of random domains where email delivery has failed. Otherwise, it just delivers to all the big providers. [1] https://mailinabox.email/
That annoying upgrade is the reason I’m planning on moving to Stalwart[1]. I’m still on the old MiaB version and I’ve always been interested in JMAP (which Stalwart supports)
[1]: https://stalw.art
Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email
#140Like every last time it was posted. It’s not suitable for anything other than your hobby email domain. If you use your email with your bank, and other critical services I’d seriously not go with a one-person show. > Also, we're in beta https://purelymail.com/about > We're a small company. So small, the "we" is royal. I wish Scott best of luck and I hope one day it reaches there but until it is anything but confidence…
Whenever I come across landing pages I always wonder, how many people are the "we" and "team" really. It feels disingenuous to use these terms under such circumstances, but he's definitely not a minority doing so. It's kinda the norm, wherever we (｡ ◕ ‿ ◕ ｡) like it or not
He could get a cat and technically not be lying.