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. --
