I own several properties and pet projects and setting up e-mail is something that has always annoyed me. So I built a little infrastructure to deal with this and I am thinking of releasing it into the world.
It is meant to be particularly useful for people who own several websites and those websites have a varying number of human and service accounts across several domains.
What I would be willing to provide:
- Email hosting with very few arbitrary limits (create as many domains / mailboxes / e-mail forwards / domain maps as you want)
- All of the appropriate "modern" security requirements for emails taken care of: strict (user-configurable though) SPF records, DomainKeys, enforced TLS for clients (to avoid plaintext password leaks), opportunistic STARTTLS between servers with ECDHE, etc.
- Both POP3 and IMAP.
- A simple REST-ful API and browser-based UI to handle provisioning domains/forwards/mailboxes
- Optional DNS server. Plenty of stuff that makes e-mail safer these days is in DNS so it would make sense to let us handle that for you.
- Encrypted backups.
- Hosting in Europe in two different countries with failover.
- You get to use as much or as little of the system as you want. Only need forwards? Great. Wanna edit your SPF records and add your own server? Awesome. Want to add quotas to some accounts? Feel free to. No quotas for yourself? That's awesome as well. Want us to relay for you? Sure thing. Dedicated IP address for you and bring your own certificate? Can do (at a little extra cost for the IP address).
It would cost about $7 equivalent in Bitcoin for every 20GB of stored data and, of course, it can't be used for spam.
So I ask:
- Would people be interested in paying for this?
- Are there any missing features?
Most of the work is already done on my side but offering this for third parties involves some overhead, so I would appreciate if the community could chime in.
I found this thread with a Google search looking for something like this. So, I guess that means demand >= 1!
