Comment by kn100
8 hours ago
Thundermail is a great idea! I'd be more than happy to switch over assuming the migration path from say Gmail, Fastmail, etc was easy enough, and it supported custom domains.
8 hours ago
Thundermail is a great idea! I'd be more than happy to switch over assuming the migration path from say Gmail, Fastmail, etc was easy enough, and it supported custom domains.
Will support custom domains out of the box. Getting real close to launch. Join waitlist at https://thundermail.com
Is unlimited email aliases (with or without custom domains) also on the roadmap?
I can see switching from gmail, but it would have to be really compelling to get me to switch from Fastmail.
What would get you to switch from Fastmail?
Probably JMAP support.
>Thundermail is a great idea!
I think the synergy part is what is great here. Imagine thundermail is a FOSS server app. Imagine they implement things like proof-of-work for senders, and no PoW means the mail goes into a quarantine instead of directly in the user's inbox. That could fight spam, without the centralization and loss of privacy we've had in email. That hasn't happened now, because of the chicken-egg problem. There's no client that supports it because there's no server that supports it because there's no client that supports it.
Thunderbird is a very big client. It could push email forward like nothing before. I may give Thundermail a try. I'd much rather self-host a Thundermail server... one that works around the port 25 block on every residential IP. Maybe my self hosted instance could receive messages relayed from the "real" thundermail server on something other than port 25.
Sign up for the waitlist here: https://Thundermail.com
Also the Thundermail service is based on Stalwart (completely foss). We'll open source any additional relevant bits.
We also released the supporting services:
https://github.com/thunderbird/appointment
https://github.com/thunderbird/tbpro-add-on
https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-accounts