On 11 May 2015 15:59:40 CEST, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:37 AM, C Bergström <cbergst...@pathscale.com> >wrote: >> Sorry to shoot and run, but I think you're trying to tackle this >> problem in the wrong way. The problem isn't to drop the mail. The >> solution is to change email hosting providers. As a non-profit I >> believe Google hosted apps would be an option (free). > >In general we try to stick to our social contract, and that means >trying to avoid depending on proprietary technologies such as gmail. > >Now, I could see just using a FOSS-based IMAP/SMTP/POP provider, >perhaps which allows things like forwarding and such, which allows us >to have a copy of all our configuration and such in case we want to >migrate. I'm not super-familiar with the wordpress.com model but >something like that also seems reasonable - we leverage donations of >hosting services but we aren't bound to anything proprietary and have >the ability to migrate off. > >I'd REALLY like to see a FOSS alternative to Gmail (a good one, that >is), and ditto for Google docs (or whatever the latest branding for >that is). There is nothing magical about cloud-based services any more >than there is anything magical about letting somebody else host your >website. The key is to ensure that the technologies are open so that >you aren't bound to a single provider.
Rich, If you are thinking of a FOSS email provider. Maybe investigate Fastmail? They use postfix and cyrus. And they also handle a lot of the development of the latter. Not sure if they would fit in with the rest, but I would trust them sooner then Google. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
