[Freedombox-discuss] Hosting emails at home

[alberto fuentes]

On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 7:31 AM, Joseph Nuthalapati <njoseph at thoughtworks.com
> wrote:

> I've captured the resources shared on this email thread on the issue #56.
>
> We are working on some big features right now - AWS cloud image, fixing
> raspberry pi builds, build server migration to buildbot, backup and the
> occasional Plinth maintenance. And mray's new card-based UI design is
> also running in parallel.
>
> Email server is one of the basic features promised by FreedomBox and
> deserves to be a high priority. We are planning to do it as soon as the
> more essential feature, backup is done.
>
> Maybe we should focus more on the really basic things users would
> expect, like a website, blog, email server and file storage instead of
> integrating a lot of applications.
>

Mail is a complex beast for non sysadmins. Specially from a home machine
ip. Its nice but not sure if its a good focus for this day an age.
Specially looking at how long it takes to develop a solution and the man
power available ( 2018 and still is not done!)

One clear use case i see for a home server is a tool to ease degoogling
your phone

https://piware.de/post/2018-05-01-android-degoogle/
https://piware.de/post/2018-05-21-android-degoogle-2/

Sync cal, contacts, tasks, photos, backup of the phone etc...

my 2cents
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