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mnm

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mnm is not mail

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The mnm project is building a legitimate email replacement: a client,
a server, and a simple protocol between them. It's designed for
everyone, but especially:

  * Organizations and departments where a phishing attack could be
    catastrophic, and that rely on internal email. Examples:
    manufacturing, public infrastructure, government, finance,
    research & development, information technology.

  * Services and websites whose customers/members exchange email with
    the site or each other, and dislike the message scanning done by
    webmail sites. Examples: legal affairs, health care, job search,
    family matters.

mnm has two major goals.

 1. To provide a far safer correspondence model, where you:
    + choose the organizations/sites that relay your correspondence
    + select which members of a site can correspond with you
    + always know from which site a message originated
    + can block anyone with whom you've made contact
    + may leave a site and never see traffic from it again

 2. To offer capabilities missing in traditional email, including:
    + forms/surveys whose results are collected into tables
    + data-driven charts via [a JS chart library TBD]
    + slide deck layouts
    + hashtags and private tags
    + hyperlinks to messages & other threads
    + message formatting & layout via Markdown (aka CommonMark)
    + many more features to foster efficiency, creativity, focus, and
    understanding

Further reading: Why TMTP?

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Status

The mnm client app has had nine preview releases since April 2019. It
runs on Windows, MacOS, and Linux; ports to Android and iOS are
planned. Its UI appears in a web browser, and is tested with Chrome &
Firefox. It stores all data on the user's machine, and can replicate
the data to other devices. It includes complete docs, and a tour for
first-time users. See also the release history and Readme.

The mnm TMTP server has been deployed on a host in a public
datacenter for testing use since early 2019. It runs on Linux; ports
to FreeBSD, Windows, and MacOS are planned. It has no runtime
dependencies. It does not yet support restrictions on who may create
accounts. See also the release history and Readme.

The project is seeking comments, contributors, and patrons. To submit
a question, observation, feature request, or bug report, please open
or comment on an issue:

  * Re the TMTP protocol
  * Re the mnm client app
  * Re the mnm TMTP server

The client and server are open source, subject to the terms of the
Mozilla Public License, v2.0.

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Quick Start

You'll need an invitation to a TMTP service. To run your own service,
set up the mnm TMTP server.

You'll need Firefox or Chrome. (I strongly endorse Firefox :-)

Windows MacOS Linux

 1. Download & save
    a) Click mnm-app-windows-amd64-v0.9.0.zip.
    b) In the browser downloads list, find the above file and click
    "Open File".
    c) Drag the item mnm-app-v0.9.0 to the Downloads folder in the
    left-hand pane.

 2. If a previous version is running
    a) Go to its log window and press Ctrl-C and then Y to stop it.

 3. Start app
    a) Open the mnm-app-v0.9.0 folder now in Downloads, and
    double-click App (aka App.cmd).
    b) You'll see a notice, either
    b.1) "Windows protected your PC..." Click "More info" and then "Run
    anyway".
    b.2) "The publisher could not be verified..." Click "Run".
    c) You'll see a system notice, "Do you want to allow ...?" Click
    "Yes".
    +  You'll see the mnm log window.
    +  If you have a previous version in Downloads, it will offer to
    update it.
    +  If the app fails, it will offer to restart it.
    +  To stop the app, press Ctrl-C and then Y (closes the window).

 4. Connect Firefox or Chrome
    a) Right-click localhost:8123, and select "Open link in new tab".
    +  You'll see the landing page, with a tour.

 1. Download & save
    Note: MacOS 11 will be supported beginning in Feb 2021.
    a) Click mnm-app-macos-amd64-v0.9.0.tgz.
    b) In the browser downloads list, find the file above and click
    "Open File".

 2. If a previous version is running
    a) Go to its log window and press Ctrl-C to stop it, then close
    the window.

 3. Start app
    a) Open the mnm-app-v0.9.0 folder now in Downloads, Ctrl-click on
    App, and select "Open".
    b) You'll see a notice, "App is a Unix application..." Click "Open"
    (if possible).
    c) For MacOS 10.15+ (Catalina), read "How to open an app that
    hasn't been notarized..." on Apple Support.
    +  You'll see the mnm log window.
    +  If you have a previous version in Downloads, it will offer to
    update it.
    +  If the app fails, it will offer to restart it.
    +  To stop the app, press Ctrl-C, then close the window.

 4. Connect Firefox or Chrome
    a) Ctrl-click (or two-finger tap) localhost:8123, and select
    "Open link in new tab".
    +  You'll see the landing page, with a tour.

 1. Download & save
    a) Click mnm-app-linux-amd64-v0.9.0.tgz.
    b) Extract the downloaded file, e.g. tar xzf
    mnm-app-linux-amd64-v0.9.0.tgz

 2. If a previous version is running
    a) Go to its log window and press Ctrl-C to stop it.

 3. Start app
    a) Open the extracted mnm-app-v0.9.0 folder, and double-click
    App.
    +  You'll see the mnm log window.
    +  If you have a previous version in the parent folder, it will
    offer to update it.
    +  If the app fails, it will offer to restart it.
    +  To stop the app, press Ctrl-C (closes the window).

 4. Connect Firefox or Chrome
    a) Right-click localhost:8123, and select "Open link in new tab".
    +  You'll see the landing page, with a tour.

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Installation Notes

On Windows, the app needs Administrator privileges to create symlinks
and configure the firewall. App.cmd creates the firewall
configuration. To inspect it, run:
netsh advfirewall firewall show rule name=mnm-hammer verbose

To start the app using a different TCP port, run:
MacOS & Linux (as any user): ./mnm-hammer -http :8123
Windows (as administrator): mnm-hammer.exe -http :8123

Updating from a previous version moves the folder mnm-app-v0.X.0/
store to the new version, and leaves the previous version otherwise
untouched. Launching App.cmd or App in the previous version will
offer to update to it, moving the store folder back again (not
recommended).

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Credits

The mnm app and TMTP server are written in Go. The app also depends
on Couchbase-sponsored Bleve, and Gorilla Websocket. The server also
depends on Brett Vickers' NTP client.

The browser-based UI depends on Vue.js for HTML templates and
components, UIkit for icons, markdown-it for Markdown rendering,
Luxon for Date/Time formatting, and vue-form-generator for the Blank
Forms feature.

mnm is always tested first with Mozilla Firefox, and the author
frequently turns to the MDN web docs. Development of mnm is managed
with Git.

The logo is by David Gilmore.

Robin Eng tested the preview releases at length.

Copyright (c) 2020 Liam Breck