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Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had good experience with Citadel for an internal mail solution. It's a little old fashioned, but good enough for our needs. The setup was especially easy with the default ubuntu packages.

I'm also testing citadel for a small team, the issue is that I can't get thunderbird/lightning to sync the calendar with citadel, email works fine, will be checking kolab soon

Just FYI, we are not using the calendaring system from Citadel; so can't give any report for that.

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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This is sort of related. A couple weeks back I wrote some Salt States to install mailpile. My long term plan was to use mailpile as a web client. http://russell.ballestrini.net/mailpile-salt-states-for-ubun...

Thanks will look at your code!

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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How does it compare to iRedMail? http://www.iredmail.org Does it support multiple domains?

As corv mentioned in another comment, the goal of Mail-in-a-Box is a little different from iRedMail. I'm trying to build something closer to a one-click email appliance that eventually anyone might be able to use, rather than a setup for sysadmins. [I'm the guy behind the project.]

I'm curious why you didn't base this on Kolab [0]? It looks like you share a lot of common components [1], but they've already done the integration work and added additional features.

[0] http://kolab.org/ [1] http://kolab.org/sites/kolab.org/files/u51/KolabServer-Compo... vs https://mailinabox.email/static/architecture.svg

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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ownCloud needs to integrate this kind of easy email setup. I already run an ownCloud server but deliberately avoided moving my email to it due to the less than ideal state of email on ownCloud

The situation we really want to get to is a single streamlined sign up and set up for email alongside owncloud, with contacts, file storage, calendar, bookmarks and webmail. That would make it an attractive proposition for quite a large section of the population.

I really hope owncloud won't try to reinvent the wheel for email; Kolab already provides those features.

http://kolab.org/

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As corv mentioned in another comment, the goal of Mail-in-a-Box is a little different from iRedMail. I'm trying to build something closer to a one-click email appliance that eventually anyone might be able to use, rather than a setup for sysadmins. [I'm the guy behind the project.]

I'm curious why you didn't base this on Kolab [0]? It looks like you share a lot of common components [1], but they've already done the integration work and added additional features. [0] http://kolab.org/ [1] http://kolab.org/sites/kolab.org/files/u51/KolabServer-Compo... vs https://mailinabox.email/static/architecture.svg

I'm trying to build a system that is simple and auditable. Mail-in-a-Box is also really a system configuration project and not a project to build a better UI. So the goals are very different.

For instance on auditing, from looking at Kolab's source code I have no idea what kind of security settings are used. In Mail-in-a-Box I try to make these sorts of things clear and highly commented in the setup script.

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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> Why build this? > Mass electronic surveillance by governments revealed [...] Then why are they suggesting to use DigitalOcean? I think they have to respect the sames laws than Google, right?

Because then you get the warrant or NSL?

Re: Mail-in-a-Box

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does ownCloud still throw webdav errors for self-signed certs?

can owncloud do mail at all? its calendar works, but no support for tasks, I don't even know it does email

no, but the linked product (mail-in-a-box) uses ownCloud's webDAV/calDAV implementation rather than providing a separate means.

in my experience if ownCloud is supplied with a self-signed cert, the webDAV module throw errors but still works correctly. It's really obnoxious and causes a nag-window at the top of the main settings UI until either you comment out the nag window or buy a signed cert.

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