Mailpile: Let’s take email back
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Mailpile: Let’s take email back
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Re: Mailpile: Let’s take email back
#2This project has roots at least some years back, so it’s not starting from scratch with lofty ideas that are unlikely to come to fruition. Solid team with a great ideology!
Re: Mailpile: Let’s take email back
#3Bjarni here, lead dev. Happy to answer any questions.
Re: Mailpile: Let’s take email back
#4I'm super-happy that someone is at last trying to build a self-hosted competitor to Gmail.
Sure, I can set up my own mailserver already, but the amount of effort it takes is too much compared to just setting up a Gmail account. If they can get set-up and spam-protection right, then this could be huge!
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#5I like the concept - but it's missing a discussion of how they handle what I consider to be (by a pretty large factor) one of the most important feature in email - Anti-Spam.
Gmail (which I'm not suggesting is an ideal, just what I happen to use) doesn't even bother to show me my spam folder - and, in the last week, it's redirected 1178 messages there.
Re: Mailpile: Let’s take email back
#6Bjarni here, lead dev. Happy to answer any questions.
Are there any plans to help make setting up your own mailserver easier? That seems to be the main challenge for anyone who wants to self-host right now.
Re: Mailpile: Let’s take email back
#7Bjarni here, lead dev. Happy to answer any questions.
Are there any plans to help make setting up your own mailserver easier? That seems to be the main challenge for anyone who wants to self-host right now.
That is one of our main long-term goals. It's too early to say exactly how we would do that, but odds are there would be some sort of helper service in the cloud which relays and handles DNS and such. We need to get the client built first though.
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#8I like the concept - but it's missing a discussion of how they handle what I consider to be (by a pretty large factor) one of the most important feature in email - Anti-Spam. Gmail (which I'm not suggesting is an ideal, just what I happen to use) doesn't even bother to show me my spam folder - and, in the last week, it's redirected 1178 messages there.
Absolutely. I'm the lead developer - I spent almost 6 years working on anti-virus and anti-spam, so rest assured we know this is a big deal. :-) There is alot of quality stuff in the open source world already which we will be able to build on.
Update: To clarify why we left it out of the pitch - we just took it for granted that you can't have a functional e-mail client without dealing with spam.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are there any plans to help make setting up your own mailserver easier? That seems to be the main challenge for anyone who wants to self-host right now.
That is one of our main long-term goals. It's too early to say exactly how we would do that, but odds are there would be some sort of helper service in the cloud which relays and handles DNS and such. We need to get the client built first though.
And what would be your approach to spam-filtering? One of Google Mail's strengths is that it can use data from millions of accounts' emails to train its spam-filter.
Do you see Mailpile offering some way to do the same thing in the future, with clients flagging spam and the result being used to train a 'community' filter?
Re: Mailpile: Let’s take email back
#10Bjarni here, lead dev. Happy to answer any questions.
Please fix the "it's" typo on your website ;)