Bjarni here, lead dev. Happy to answer any questions.
Please fix the "it's" typo on your website ;)
Haha, noted. Thanks.
Mailpile: Let’s take email back
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#12It‘s still decidedly aimed at techies though. I guess it'll be another few years before the benefits of a Free Software Gmail competitor will be accessible to the layman.
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#13Weird that the description of what it actually is is below the fold :-) However: Mailpile is a modern web-mail you run on your own computer.
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#14I applaud these goals however if we were to ever consider moving from Google Apps (which we would) it would only be for an open source project given that privacy is becoming the more critical issue as the years go on. It would be great to see a subscription based email service such as this where the source is fully available for scrutinizing and patching.
Edit: Great, so the source is already available.
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#15Bjarni here, lead dev. Happy to answer any questions.
Do you have plans to make money off of this?
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#16Bjarni here, lead dev. Happy to answer any questions.
Do you have plans to make money off of this?
They've started an indiegogo campaign to fund the development.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mailpile-taking-e-mail-bac...
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#17I applaud these goals however if we were to ever consider moving from Google Apps (which we would) it would only be for an open source project given that privacy is becoming the more critical issue as the years go on. It would be great to see a subscription based email service such as this where the source is fully available for scrutinizing and patching. Edit: Great, so the source is already available.
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#18I applaud these goals however if we were to ever consider moving from Google Apps (which we would) it would only be for an open source project given that privacy is becoming the more critical issue as the years go on. It would be great to see a subscription based email service such as this where the source is fully available for scrutinizing and patching. Edit: Great, so the source is already available.
This is an open source project.
Also, if privacy is important for you, you shouldn't look into subscription services, whatever software package they use.
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#19I applaud these goals however if we were to ever consider moving from Google Apps (which we would) it would only be for an open source project given that privacy is becoming the more critical issue as the years go on. It would be great to see a subscription based email service such as this where the source is fully available for scrutinizing and patching. Edit: Great, so the source is already available.
Unless I am missing something, this is self-hosted and open source (AGPL).
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#20Bjarni here, lead dev. Happy to answer any questions.
how does the search work? is there a separate database? i use mairix (which does construct a separate database) and it's pretty damn awesome. have you looked at that? are re-inventing something worse? sometimes it is useful to search just the body. and mairix works fine with a huge volume of mail.
also, getmail is python and does pop and imap downloads, so could be used there.
[otherwise, this seems awesome and if i run out of my own dumb ideas i will seriously consider contributing]