Many other guides dive deep into 10 plus pages of how to set up such a service with Dovecot, Postfix and a web server all from the command line, but this one is a lot simpler because most of what you need is inside Citadel. Citadel also has calendar, Contacts, Notes, Tasks and chat rooms so can be a good alternative to Google or other providers. Your only cost really is the Raspberry Pi and a domain name if you don’t already have one.

You could tweak this a bit further by using your own DNS provider (or alternative to Cloudflare) and considering an external hard drive connected to the Pi for reliability.

See https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-email-server/

#technology #email #privacy #raspberrypi #alternativeto #opensource

    • GadgeteerZA@lemmy.mlOP
      41·
      4 years ago

      Mmm OK interesting never looked at their actual community - makes me wonder about their open source license then thoughh as terrorists also are suppoised to be able to freely use open source software. Hope they realise that.

        • GadgeteerZA@lemmy.mlOP
          2·
          4 years ago

          But as stated there “The Anti-Capitalist Software License is not an open source software license”. Open source has to be an unrestricted license for it to fulfil the defintion.

      • Katie Ampersand
        21·
        4 years ago

        There’s stuff like ethical open source licenses that are literally made so that you can’t use them for racism, terrorism, etc. “Ethical” is a bit of a squishy term but it’s definitely better than giving free tools to terrorists and nazis

        Licenses often include a description so you don’t need to read it (mentioning this bc i know some people would be wary of the “ethical” bit and would rather Know everything the license is about), and some people legit read licenses so you can just ask them about it

        • GadgeteerZA@lemmy.mlOP
          1·
          4 years ago

          Yes terrorism is also a bit of a subjective term - just depends on which side you are as the other side calls them freedom fighters. It starts getting very murky as non-harmful includes all “legitimate” armed forces, and in many countries even their police forces. Globally everyone just does not hold the same values, and perspectives differ a lot. Gender discrimination judged in one country is also not seen the same in other countries. Many companies are not very ethical in their business practices (sometimes even governments) which leaves just about everyone sliding down the slippery slope ;-)

          • Katie Ampersand
            2·
            4 years ago

            Yup, I just think it’s better to struggle on the slippery slope than to make the slope be fixed at a 90° angle. Stopping some harm is better than making it easier for all harm to occur

        • AntonHuber@lemmy.ml
          33·
          4 years ago

          Most people who are tired of Genderism are neither Nazis or criminals. Genderrism has more than once destroid an otherwise good work.

        • AlmaemberTheGreat@lemmy.ml
          22·
          4 years ago

          The problem is with the idiots who think that the master branch is racist

          Also, ethical software is bullshit IMO. Free software 4life

          • nutomic@lemmy.ml
            4·
            4 years ago

            There is also a problem with people who make a big drama when projects dare to use a different name for their main branch.

            • AlmaemberTheGreat@lemmy.ml
              3·
              4 years ago

              Believe me; I do not give a shit what others use. After all, I (like others) know other RCS systems outside Git, and I don’t find it a problem that e.g. hg uses HEAD (and has been using HEAD since its early days, before the “master is racist” nonsense), svn uses trunk (I think, admittedly I’m not a fan of centralized RCS systems).

              I have a problem when others want to bully me into changing it when I don’t want to.

              Edit: my only problem with this state is that there is no standard. I have no problem with hg’s choice, because EVERY hg repo’s master branch is called HEAD. But now with git, there two gazillion possibilites, and no standard. Some have moved to trunk, main, I’ve seem some people use “actual”, and some people use “master”, of course. So I do find it annoying that people had to ruin a standard that worked for over a decade.

            • AlmaemberTheGreat@lemmy.ml
              11·
              4 years ago

              Do you think that a government violating it’s own constitution will be stopped by a software license? Do people really believe that?

              Thechnology is like any other tool, say, a hammer or a screwdriver. It serves it’s owner. It depends on the owner what it’s used for.

              Surveillance should be illegal either way, we shouldn’t rely on software licenses to do that.

              I will also insist that master is not racist. It’s not like only a single race was ever enslaved.

              Also would you call the master bedroom, racist? I hope not.