New, Privacy-Oriented, FOSS Web-mail: Mailpile 116
New submitter Juggler writes "Mailpile, a new Free Software project out of Iceland, launched at the #OHM2013 hacker festival in Holland today. The talk's brief demo garnered rounds of applause and was followed by the launch of an Indiegogo campaign which, if funded, will allow them work full time on building a modern e-mail/web-mail client. The team's main goals are to address the usability issues that prevent non-technical folks from taking advantage of secure e-mail today, bring new life to FOSS e-mail development and provide a realistic alternative to keeping e-mail in the cloud."
Re:antiquated system (Score:5, Funny)
what protocol or protocol changes do you propose?
In this day and age, isn't that obvious? We need to listen to what the majority of the computing public wants. It should be:
* Proprietary, closely controlled by a single large company
* All email must go through their servers.
* Have unavoidable advertising added to all emails.
* The protocol must be centralized rather than distributed
* The possibility to run your own servers should be removed.
* It should be limited to very short messages of no more than a few lines.
* It should only be available on locked-down devices
Most people have succeeded in getting some of those features by using gmail, but we're not all the way there yet, so there is still room for improvement.