You are not your body. Who you are was never born, and will never die. Realise that and you will see you question through a whole different angle. You can start with "I am That" by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
... and I can safely write that there is no way you will ever achieve anything comparable to gmail.
You can try: - squirrelmail, ugly and so last century - openwebmail, old-fashioned Perl webmail, not maintained any longer - zimbra mail, lots of functionalities and fancy features - roundcube, decent but nowhere near what you're hoping for
Spam control on the server side is going to be an issue. You will have to use a combination of solutions (e.g. custom sendmail configs, RBL/XBL blacklists, spamassassin, greylisting, procmail rules, smf-spf, j-chkmail) and it will take quite some time and effort to get everything fine-tuned.
For anti-virus, clamav works well
For IMAP I found that dovecot does a decent job. If you want to fetch from remote servers into your own server then fetchmail can do the job.
You will spend long hours maintaining this, highly recommend using a log colorizer to help watching logs e.g. ccze In the end you will feel you got a half-baked solution that doesn't even come close to comparing to gmail in terms of functionality, ease of user interface, security and spam control. But hey, it'll be your own stuff.
From the average user's point of view, telcos might look not-so-useful. This view can only be explained by the user's total ignorance of what happens behind the scenes.
What you are suggesting sounds good for a small community of users, and then again there would be plenty of restrictions that would make it not practical at all.
You pay your communications because there are costs associated with it. It's the same way with other utilities. Why would it be different?
May I suggest that you visit the local operations of a telco. You will notice the hundres of people working there, the terabyte of storage, the hundreds of UNIX servers running at high load, the thousands of transmissions links, fiberoptics, radios, etc. The rooms filled with batteries for backup power. The vast rooms filled with gear you don't even know exist.
Nice idea, good utopia, but not likely soon.
Just my opinion after 10 years of working for telcos.
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You are not your body. Who you are was never born, and will never die. Realise that and you will see you question through a whole different angle. You can start with "I am That" by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
... and I can safely write that there is no way you will ever achieve anything comparable to gmail.
You can try:
- squirrelmail, ugly and so last century
- openwebmail, old-fashioned Perl webmail, not maintained any longer
- zimbra mail, lots of functionalities and fancy features
- roundcube, decent but nowhere near what you're hoping for
Spam control on the server side is going to be an issue. You will have to use a combination of solutions (e.g. custom sendmail configs, RBL/XBL blacklists, spamassassin, greylisting, procmail rules, smf-spf, j-chkmail) and it will take quite some time and effort to get everything fine-tuned.
For anti-virus, clamav works well
For IMAP I found that dovecot does a decent job. If you want to fetch from remote servers into your own server then fetchmail can do the job.
Usual security considerations apply - patch early, patch often.
You will spend long hours maintaining this, highly recommend using a log colorizer to help watching logs e.g. ccze
In the end you will feel you got a half-baked solution that doesn't even come close to comparing to gmail in terms of functionality, ease of user interface, security and spam control. But hey, it'll be your own stuff.
People, try http://digg.com/
You'll get the articles before they appear on Slashdot
Slashdot: you were cool when you started, but now it's been years, time to evolve or suck
From the average user's point of view, telcos might look not-so-useful. This view can only be explained by the user's total ignorance of what happens behind the scenes.
What you are suggesting sounds good for a small community of users, and then again there would be plenty of restrictions that would make it not practical at all.
You pay your communications because there are costs associated with it. It's the same way with other utilities. Why would it be different?
May I suggest that you visit the local operations of a telco. You will notice the hundres of people working there, the terabyte of storage, the hundreds of UNIX servers running at high load, the thousands of transmissions links, fiberoptics, radios, etc. The rooms filled with batteries for backup power. The vast rooms filled with gear you don't even know exist.
Nice idea, good utopia, but not likely soon.
Just my opinion after 10 years of working for telcos.