In light of recent political attacks on E-mail servers in France and the USA and in light of the current worm attack I think it is very clear we need communication servers we can trust. I am running my own E-mail server and with the progress we are making in GNU Guix (system configuration, image creation) I think we are close to creating a solution that others can use. What I want achieve is that we can fire up an image on a VPS with safe communications. It would contain a mail server and webmail. The user will have option to allow users to only communicate internally and, perhaps, keep incoming mail in one account keeping mail in 'escrow'.
This image should be state-of-the-art in security setup. Guix can help greatly there. Part of the security will come from the fact that these machines are not centrally hosted. An alternative to protonmail, for example. We should be able to lose a few servers as long as we get notified somehow that they have been compromised. This is a biological model of defence. Who wants to help me create such a solution? It has to be a team effort. If you need bread we can also try and find some money. In fact it would be great to get someone full time hacking on this. Who wants to run such a server? We also need users. I would have set up a couple of such instances today for teams on the road in Asia/Africa. I realise this may take some resources from Guix development, but I think it is justified and it may gain Guix more attention and traction! Pj.
