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I'm thinking of setting up a free LET service.
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I'm thinking of setting up a free LET service.

skirtTightskirtTight Member
edited April 2013 in General

Since I noticed there's a few people wanting to store their email somewhere.

I decided that it'd nice if I just grabbed one of my instances, installed kloxo on it, and gave out a free service for the LET community.

The only requirements/rules being:
Being on LET longer than a month.
Obviouly don't abuse it.

I wouldn't set a limit on the # of email accounts per user.
I'd be using kloxo with lighttpd, offering basic hosting services.

And, obviously, it'd be 100% free of charge.

What do you guys think I should limit the disk/bandie limits to?

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  • and why would people trust a random troll with their private mails?

  • jhjh Member

    There's a lot of responsibility involved in hosting email..

  • @skirtTight said: What do you guys think I should limit the disk/bandie limits to?

    Something low/reasonable.

  • @jhadley said: There's a lot of responsibility involved in hosting email..

    So I shouldn't trust most of let?

    @Microlinux said: Something low/reasonable.

    Maybe I should set it to something low, and increase it upon request (per user).

  • It might also be interesting to really be selective to keep the reigns in on abusers. There seem to a lot of free services, but most seem to focus on quantity over quality. I'd rather have a low-resource but stable free service than some over-the-moon, abused to hell free service.

  • @Microlinux said: It might also be interesting to really be selective to keep the reigns in on abusers. There seem to a lot of free services, but most seem to focus on quantity over quality. I'd rather have a low-resource but stable free service than some over-the-moon, abused to hell free service.

    I'm trying to keep abusers out by making everyone that want's contact pm me thru let.

  • I doubt if many will sign up. emails are sensitive to be trusted on free service from some random guy.

  • @jcaleb said: I doubt if many will sign up. emails are sensitive to be trusted on free service from some random guy.

    Then don't.

  • @jcaleb said: I doubt if many will sign up. emails are sensitive to be trusted on free service from some random guy.

    Probably not as a primary account -- but I could think of scenarios where it could be a useful service.

  • @Microlinux said: Probably not as a primary account -- but I could think of scenarios where it could be a useful service.

    For trolling account maybe?

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    Hmm, free email service.

    I suspect someone has already thought of this.

  • @jcaleb said: For trolling account maybe?

    That would be one (undesirable) use. There are undesirable sides to most things in life, sadly.

  • AndreAndre Member

    Gmail
    Outlook (Hotmail)
    Yahoo Mail
    AOL Mail
    Yandex Mail
    Mail.com
    Shortmail

    etc etc

  • @raindog308 said: Hmm, free email service.

    Big No No

  • jhjh Member

    @skirtTight said: So I shouldn't trust most of let?

    I definitely wouldn't host my email on a LEB, but maybe that's just me.

    @Andre said: Shortmail

    I read this as "shovemail" ;)

  • It's nice that you want to provide something for free, but I think the only thing that would possibly generate interest in this community is straight storage space, maybe owncloud.

  • installed kloxo on it

    kloxo, the control panel whose security track record over the years is almost as bad as zpanel's?

  • DStroutDStrout Member
    edited April 2013

    This service obviously wouldn't be for anything important. Just a spare inbox anytime you don't want to use your main one. I'm in favor.

  • @DomainBop said: kloxo, the control panel whose security track record over the years is almost as bad as zpanel's?

    Suggest me something better.

  • @skirtTight said: Suggest me something better.

    roundcube+sendmail+dovecot

  • I would use it for online stuff if it was more anonymous.

  • @bcarlsonmedia said: I would use it for online stuff if it was more anonymous.

    yeah
    no

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    @bcarlsonmedia said: I would use it for online stuff if it was more anonymous.

    Ah, the old days of anon.penet.fi...

    Thanked by 1Lee
  • Not anonymous in the sneaking around way, just in the not being gmail way.

  • Grab a public sub domain from afraid.org and setup a mx with that. Quick and easy.

  • tommytommy Member

    @herbyscrub said: Grab a public sub domain from afraid.org and setup a mx with that. Quick and easy.

    that not a good idea, since you can get domain just for $7 and use domain live to host your mail.

  • After seeing how you like to talk and refer to people, I won't touch you even with a 10 miles pole...

  • @yomero said: After seeing how you like to talk and refer to people, I won't touch you even with a 10 miles pole...

    Basically how I feel.

  • I stopped reading here.

  • @DStrout said: I'm in favor.

    ...Until I actually pay enough attention to the thread to see who's proposing it.

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