Is there a good, free webmail system that I can run on a server I control? It's simple to run a vanilla mail server, but I don't want to have to carry around Thunderbird portable just to access my mail in public places.
Most mail systems support calendar apps, Thunderbird says this about their calendar app, Sunbird/Lightning: > HOW CAN I PUBLISH MY EVENTS ON A REMOTE SERVER? > > You can create your calendar on a calendar server that supports > CalDAV<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:QA_CalDAV_Support>, > or WCAP <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:WCAP_Guide>, or has a calendar > data provider > add-on<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/sunbird/browse/type:1/cat:75?show=20&exp=on&sort=popular> > . > CalDAV, WCAP, and some add-on protocols permit a calendaring client such as > Sunbird or Lightning to tell the server to modify individual events, and the > servers prevent or detect overwriting changes by two people or programs. > When you subscribe to a calendar using these methods, changes you make are > saved back to the server one event or task at a time. > > You can also publish events from the calendar as a personal .ics file on an > FTP server (Sunbird only) or a webDAV enabled web server. You can use the > calendar to subscribe to these events as well. Since this method overwrites > the entire file for each change, it is not for calendars modified by more > than one person or program, nor for large calendars. > So it seems that sharing already exists for calendars. On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Karl Fogel <[email protected]>wrote: > Thomas Levine <[email protected]> writes: > >I'd like to move away from my wonderful, integrated, proprietary, > >web-based Google Services Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Lists and > >Google Docs. I ask for suggestions of what to move to. > > > >[...] > > > >I *love* Google Lists for entering school assignment due dates, but > >it's currently very closed, with no importing or exporting. > > For what it's worth, I think Google's "Data Liberation Front" [1] plans > to implement export for every Google service. Their policy is pretty > clear -- they've been very public about it -- and the engineering is > under way. Some services are already done, others aren't yet. > > Note that this includes APIs, not just human-based "click to export". > > So if they haven't gotten to Google Lists yet, it's probably just a > matter of time. I don't know how much time, of course. (Disclaimer: I > used to work there, but I have no financial interest in Google today.) > > I'm not sure what a free-as-in-freedom service would look like, in the > sense that even if you had all of Google's code, you still wouldn't have > Google (as Tim O'Reilly put it), because you can't realistically deploy > that stuff without an ops team like theirs. It seems to me that any > online service offering a similar level of features and reliability will > be in a similar situation. But if you want to run your own, I find > EtherPad quite nice for online document collaboration. > > -Karl > > [1] dataliberation.org > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > -- Alec Story Cornell University Biological Sciences, Computer Science 2012
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