[Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox with Horde?
Craig Barnes
cjbarnes18 at member.fsf.org
Sat Mar 12 21:34:52 UTC 2016
Hi All,
On 12/03/16 14:43, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Hi Dieter,
>
> Quoting Dieter (2016-03-12 15:03:49)
>> The recent troubles (owncloud probably getting removed from debian), i
>> thought about trying out some different systems.
>>
>> Right now I'm downloading php-horde-webmail on the freedombox.
>> I plan to use the already available ldap-server, as well as the
>> running Postgresql-Database.
>>
>> Have any of you tried this before?
>>
>> Do you think this is a bad idea?
>>
>> Also, security-wise?
>>
>>
>> Any help and comments would be welcome! :)
> Since you asked: I find it unwise to use PHP at all on FreedomBox (since
> FreedomBox by definition means there will be no system administrator to
> monitor and intervene when (not if) yet another weakness in either the
> PHP engine itself or some code written in that language is abused.
>
> I find it interesting to explore running Mail on the box - without PHP.
> A non-PHP web-client available in Debian is Cider Webmail.
>
> A challenge is how to handle spam fully automated (again: It is a
> Freedombox so you have to assume no sysadmin is available).
>
> - Jonas
I share your concerns with PHP.
Mailpile is certainly an interesting option although still in Alpha...
Has anyone tried citadel on a freedombox, it should be sufficiently
lightweight.
Craig
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