While I agree with other posters that there could be a bit more information, I think the git based config is a pretty interesting approach.
Nice work guy, look forward to seeing it a bit more fleshed out.
Secure Mail for Devs
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Re: Secure Mail for Devs
#12>Our __bare-metal__ servers are located in Germany.
I've seen this term used a lot recently to describe dedicated servers, even Leaseweb does it now. Someone please tell me why.
Re: Secure Mail for Devs
#13"Hosted in Germany" is a good selling point, and that is incredibly sad to me. America has lost so much in just 15 years.
Re: Secure Mail for Devs
#14>Our __bare-metal__ servers are located in Germany. I've seen this term used a lot recently to describe dedicated servers, even Leaseweb does it now. Someone please tell me why.
They're saying that as opposed to virtual servers or server instances, they have actual physical servers.
Re: Secure Mail for Devs
#15It says secure, but I see no mention of encryption or legal protections that would make it so. If you're going to use the word 'secure', it has to mean more than "hosted in a country that is known to bow to the USA."
Their FAQ mentions luks. I guess, their storage is encrypted.
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#16>Our __bare-metal__ servers are located in Germany. I've seen this term used a lot recently to describe dedicated servers, even Leaseweb does it now. Someone please tell me why.
This isn't a recent term at all? Back in the 90's people were selling dedicated, unmanaged hardware as "bare metal" servers. Bare metal simply refers to the fact that they're handing you an assembled server only -- you need to install an OS and configure it.
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#17Postfix when installed has pretty good defaults and works safely pretty much out of the box. Are people actually looking for third-parties like developermail when it's really not that hard?
What about spam? What about antivirus? What about mail filtering rules?
Something like Sovereign[1] is your friend then
Re: Secure Mail for Devs
#18"Hosted in Germany" is a good selling point, and that is incredibly sad to me. America has lost so much in just 15 years.
Is it a selling point with much substance, though? Genuinely curious. Seems to me that if the American government wanted your data for some reason, obtaining it from Germany wouldn't be so hard.
Re: Secure Mail for Devs
#19It says secure, but I see no mention of encryption or legal protections that would make it so. If you're going to use the word 'secure', it has to mean more than "hosted in a country that is known to bow to the USA."
Their FAQ mentions luks. I guess, their storage is encrypted.
But how is it decrypted after booting? Is the service down until they login and mount the drives manually?
Re: Secure Mail for Devs
#20"Hosted in Germany" is a good selling point, and that is incredibly sad to me. America has lost so much in just 15 years.
Is it a selling point with much substance, though? Genuinely curious. Seems to me that if the American government wanted your data for some reason, obtaining it from Germany wouldn't be so hard.
I am not an expert on these matters, but I would imagine that the process for legally obtaining data from foreign countries is both more difficult and more public (a National Security Letter would have no teeth in Germany). Additionally, Germany has a better reputation (perhaps unearned?) for privacy rights, especially as the greatest pillar of the liberal EU, and because when the NSA bugged Merkel's cell phone they soured the intelligence relationship considerably.