Re: Building a secure communications server

[Pjotr Prins]

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 05:04:38PM +0530, Arun Isaac wrote:
> VPSs may be a start. But, I'm not comfortable with them long term. We
> should push for users to self-host their own infrastructure. It should
> be something like the FreedomBox project.
> 
> https://freedomboxfoundation.org/
> 
> The FreedomBox project is based on Debian. Perhaps, we can build
> something similar, but based on Guix.

Yes

> Currently, I self-host my blog, email, XMPP, GNU Social, and a few other
> services on my home ADSL connection with an Intel NUC running Parabola
> GNU/Linux. At some point in the future, I will migrate it to Guix.

Exactly what I am talking about. I also want to migrate my current
services so I can rebuild a system any time.

> > What would be a good webmail service to run over https? Should be
> > simple and secure (these go together, as you know). And should it run
> > over imap? I think we'll need to provide imap anyway.
> 
> Roundcube is what I use. I don't know if there are better options.
> 
> https://roundcube.net/

Yes, I saw that one before. One attractive thing about using IMAP as a
protocol is that the webservice can easily be isolated in a container.
I like that idea.

Pj.

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