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Best solution is to have your own AS number and IP ranges and your own hosting.
I'm not usually one to theorize spying, but I'm gonna call it here: I'm betting that "remote administrative access" is found between the EC2 instance and the at-home box. My first thought in seeing gsreenivas' discussion about the VPN/iptables/EC2 is that the physical box at home makes it feel more secure than an EC2 solution, but I'm not sure that is actually the case.
Wait, how does this hardware stacking work? Anyone have photos of the actual product? This all looks rendered.
It almost looks like there's a port in the top that expansions attach to. However, in the specifications, there is no expansion port listed. This makes me think that stacking is simply stacking, then we use a usb cable to attach the pieces.
This is cool guys. Kicking things off at the right time as well. However think I might be missing a few things. 1) Wasn't the whole point of email moving to the cloud to enable access on any device anywhere? If I move my email to Helm can I still access it on the go? 2) Assuming I can access it on the go. I'd need pretty fast upload speeds right? I live in Australia, and our internet is god awful.
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Unfortunately reputation management is a requirement nowadays for all senders of MTA. And it's an ongoing hassle. Helm promises to handle this in a way that doesn't let them read transmitted mails. You still have to trust them ultimately, but the stakes are higher.
The only Helm EC2 instance I've seen listens on 587 and 993, which seems incongruent with that promise.
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Now this is interesting... Appreciate it
Or https://www.iredmail.org/ or https://cloudron.io and https://mailcow.email/
Mailcow only does smtp and pop/imap, no dns, CardDAV and CalDAV.
Iredmail looks neat!
Thanks!
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Or https://www.iredmail.org/ or https://cloudron.io and https://mailcow.email/
Cloudron.io is closed source and hosted, I believe. Mailcow only does smtp and pop/imap, no dns, CardDAV and CalDAV. Iredmail looks neat! Thanks!
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The only Helm EC2 instance I've seen listens on 587 and 993, which seems incongruent with that promise.
You missed some other ports including 25.
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On a VPS, full disk encryption is not effective because the keys can be dumped from the hypervisor.
Not to mention having to wake up in the middle of the night when the VPS provider decides to reboot your VM so you can decrypt the volume on boot. Been there, done that for years.
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> Helm has no obligation or business need to log any metadata The point of Helm is to provide privacy (and end-user control) through technical means, if I understand correctly. If it's just a matter of trusting motives, I don't need a home server.
I disagree. Seizing data stored on a server in your house is much, much more difficult that seizing data stored on a cloud server.
additionally, email is more usefully between 2+ parties. For normal people, the other parties are very likely to be using a cloud email provider. I would not be surprised to learn that it is common to issue a warrant not for a specific recipient, but for anyone that has corresponded with a specific person, ie for the sender instead of the receiver -> google, give me all emails sent by user@foo to any user on your server.
this is actually a big problem of SMTP and a big weakness of helm. i didn't study the product but it seems that it would be difficult for a user to know (and prove) that another user is a helm'er. if data seizure is the issue you care about, protonmail and other such services are a better solution.