Re: Idea: mailman service (free for FOSS projects)

[ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net>]

Good and interesting idea, if you have the money.
I prefer to work on snippets and instructions, deploying more servers
than necessary isn't an option for myself at the moment.

Mantioning mailman and GuixSD: We'd first need to get all of Mailman
packaged. 2/3 parts are still missing, I have started to work on hyperkitty
but if you are interested and willing to continue it would be nice.

Afterwards we would need a system service, and then it would be good
to try this out in the wild (or intranet) to see what can be done to
run this service (and all connected ones) in a container.

Pjotr Prins transcribed 1.0K bytes:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am looking for mailman hosting for a bunch of mailing lists. There
> are commercial hosters but they usually charge per list and you get no
> access to the host itself. Mailman hosting is non-trivial, you need a
> chain of tools and (in)sane handling of SPAM. Also the setup needs to
> be secure and capable of updates. I have some experience and ideas
> here, but it is a bit much to do on my own.
> 
> I am thinking in this age of VPS' we could create a deployable Guix
> instance which people can roll out by themselves with some guarantee
> that it is safe and secure. There are also organisations willing to
> fork out some money to outsource their mailing lists. Basically a
> markup for running software on top of a running VPS (or maybe our own
> array of pi servers ;)
> 
> Since we are the masters of deployment anyone interested building up a
> little business this way? After mailman there could be git hosting,
> etc. We can create FOSS solutions which do not depend on single
> providers, an answer to people using Google Groups now, or github.
> 
> Pj.
> 

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