From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: Re: Building a secure communications server Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 13:53:43 +0200 Message-ID: <20170513115343.GA22758@thebird.nl> References: <20170513060327.GA20242@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57982) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9VcY-0001PJ-1Q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 May 2017 07:54:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9VcU-0001uB-Vj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 May 2017 07:54:02 -0400 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([95.154.246.10]:38108) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9VcU-0001rH-PM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 May 2017 07:53:58 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Arun Isaac Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org 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. --