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:Not sure who the market is here? (Score:4, Insightful)
I disagree that the normal user has accepted their email is not secure. I'm fairly certain that most normal user's have no idea that email is insecure.
Re:antiquated system (Score:5, Insightful)
No need to replace SMTP. Just add "more" stuff on to it. Not necessarily on top of other extensions, feel free to supersede them. But you need to support SMTP for the foreseeable future, and it's kind of nifty to have such a dirt-simple interface to mail for those cases in which it is useful, such as inside your organization for alerts and whatnot. I don't automate anything based on email these days, but it's still not useless.