[Search-l] "open source alternative to Gmail"

[Jonathan Roberts]

I'd been thinking about this recently; had in mind a "co-operative"
business model: owned and run by the users.

My thoughts would have been to go with roundcube, especially because
of the advantages imap has over pop (in my view) but I'd be interested
to see what your app was like.

Problem with a co-operative is that it needs people to begin with!
Maybe we could set up a list for this or something and see if we could
generate some interest?

Thoughts,

Jon

On 07/05/07, EVANS, KENNETH (WOODY) <KENNETH.EVANS at tccd.edu> wrote:
>
> "An email hosting hosting service is in a state of perpetual
> siege by spammers. To the point where it sometimes seems like the
> Internet has achieved sentience - and hates you."
>
> Sounds like a tasty challenge for the 'radical trust' set, to me...
>
>
> Woody Evans
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: search-l-bounces at wikia.com [mailto:search-l-bounces at wikia.com] On
> Behalf Of Seth Finkelstein
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 2:40 PM
> To: Nathan Braun
> Cc: search-l at wikia.com
> Subject: Re: [Search-l] "open source alternative to Gmail"
>
> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 12:06:31PM -0700, Nathan Braun wrote:
> > That's what I'm sort of wondering, if it is even a possibility - or
>
>         My off-the-cuff, Eeyorish, opinion: You don't want to run an
> email hosting service. You really don't. You might want to warm up by
> trying something easier, like drug-smuggling in Columbia, or being a
> bicycle messenger in Iraq.
>
>         An email hosting hosting service is in a state of perpetual
> siege by spammers. To the point where it sometimes seems like the
> Internet has achieved sentience - and hates you. Entire regions of the
> Earth will have no contact with your server other than an unending
> attempt to reduce all mailboxes to collections of pump-and-dump frauds
> and "419" scams.
>
>         I know you're not going to believe me. I know it's so easy to
> think it's not such a big stumbling block. But you should talk to some
> of the people who run commercial ISP's and deal with this, before
> proceeding. It might be enlightening as to the extent of the problem.
>
> --
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