Haven't set one of these up myself, but yunohost.org is an easy to install Linux distro, server software and communications application stack. Designed for your very purpose.
If that's not easy enough, I can set it up for you, but only if I can read your emails.
Woot! Paul scores a viral insta-meme: Goolag! Or perhaps Göölag?
Goggle is pretty good, but Goolag is right on target in all ways.
-G.
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On 13-05-20-Mon 12:40 PM, Paul Ivanov wrote:
> Hi Troy,
>
> Troy Massey, on 2013-05-19 03:43, wrote:
>> I'm basically done with Goggle.com for e.mail ( yes that is a correct
>> spelling and how I will refer to them from now on as that is exactly what
>> Goggle has done to the internet culture by repackaging and commercializing
>> the internet into a comercially driven serach engine, it has made us myopic
>> quick fix searchers.)
> I like this, "goggle" as an alter-NATIVE pronounciation of that
> company's name. Goolag's another alter-NATIVE, with a nice
> graphic here [1].
>
>> Besides this is NOT what the internet was intended to become.
> hear, hear!
>
> If you're looking for other fountains of non-commercialism on the
> net, check out freeshell.org - in particular, it's among the
> largest remaining GOPHER holes. Read [2] for a quick summary, and
> [3] for a longer, slightly different take.
>
>> Does anyone know of any good secure e.mail sevices online with
>> decent storage that is free?
> You probably know this, but it's worth mentioning again that
> email is not a secure medium. The most "secure" that you can get
> using email the way most people do is to secure the last leg of
> communication, by receiving the contents of your email from the
> server encrypted over HTTPS - so no one who might be sniffing the
> traffic at the cafe you're sitting at could read along with you.
> But prior to that, all of those bits traveled from sender to your
> intended server completely as plain text, ready for any number of
> relays along the way to inspect the contents and carbon copy
> them. That's why if you really want to do secure communication
> over email, you have to encrypt the email for the intended
> recipient using something like GPG.
>
> It might be worth setting up a prototype of a Freedom Box at
> SudoRoom [4].
>
> 1. http://w3.cultdeadcow.com/cms/2006/02/cdc-launches-gl.html
> 2. http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://sdf.org/0/users/rbigelo/gopher.txt
> 3. http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/relevance.html
> 4. https://freedomboxfoundation.org/learn/
>
> best,
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