[Search-l] open source alternative to Gmail

[al at blogmail.cc]

Hello, we also are working in a free and open source webmail. We are a community and we did 3 releases, now we are working in ver.0.7

Our community develops the software, makes documentation and gives free service for everybody. If you want, you also can access to manage our servers! Just talking in our mailing list (also developed by us).

We release some of our e-mail content: based on free software ideology, sharing knowledge and the access to sources, BlogMail works with totally open publications, related among them and in mass of comentable electronic mails.

We still in development, we are open to new developers. We are open to work together with others projects :)

The project is BlogMail:
http://en.blogxpopuli.org/index.php/Project_BlogMail

Our community is BlogxPopuli:
http://blogxpopuli.org

You can download it:
svn checkout http://svn.blogmail.cc/blogmail/trunk .
or
http://sourceforge.net/projects/blogmail/

regards

Nathan Braun wrote:
> On 5/2/07, *jer* <jeremie @jabber.org <mailto:jeremie at jabber.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Open and interoperable search infrastructure is the key to a future
>     where one of humankind\'s greatest creations isn\'t gated through
>     corporations and black boxes.
> 
> 
> I totally agree!  In fact, for a while now, I have begun to feel the 
> same way about email -
> Why are we entrusting our most personal records to billion-dollar Search 
> Corporations??!
> 
> IMHO, email should also generally support and be run on an open, 
> extensible infrastructure, as well - not gated in by Big Corps. & Black 
> Boxes.
> 
> So here is my modest proposal to this group at the present time:
> 
> - I would seriously be willing to offer Litepost (a soon-to-be-released 
> new open source email product) to Wikia, Wikipedia or another similar 
> charitably benevolent organization as a new extensible \"open webmail\" 
> platform (along the same lines as Thunderbird, but for the web) if there 
> was/is genuine interest in such a project.
>  (In fact, I was originally thinking of calling Litepost \"wikimail,\" but 
> I thought that could a) be potentially too confusing and b) possibly 
> violate implicit trademarkage.)
> 
> - Or is that/this proposal totally outside of the scope of this project?
> 
> - It DOES seems interesting, if ironic, that all the major search 
> companies (with the exception of No. 4 Ask.com <http ://Ask.com>) all 
> have complimentary email services.  I wonder if Wikia would potentially 
> be interested in this endeavour?  Or if it is indeed peripheral/parallel 
> to what they are trying to accomplish?
> 
> -etc.
> 
> But please let me know if there is interest, or if there would be a more 
> suitable place to pursue this project.
> 
> Again, this is the first, last and only time I will even mention it here 
> - and only because I wanted to gauge interest (if any).
> 
> Warmest regards,
> 
> Nathan Braun
> http://litepost.com </http><http ://litepost.com>
> 
> 
> PS Some VERY rough algebra: Wikipedia + Jabber + US = Wikia
> Wikipedia (open encycl) + Jabber (open IM) + Wikia (open search) + US = 
> Litepost?  (where\'s the standards-based open webmail???)
>  or is this math too ambitious??  :)
> 
> 
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