Subj : encrypted email providers
To   : Warpslide
From : Daniel Path
Date : Thu Jun 03 2021 08:25 am

Hello Warpslide.

02 Jun 21 17:57, you wrote to poindexter FORTRAN:

 W> On 01 Jun 2021, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

 pF>> I looked into running my own services recently. I ran my own
 pF>> services from 1999 through 2006 or so, then went to a
 pF>> webhost/email combination. Been thinking about moving it in-house
 pF>> for a couple of reasons.

 pF>> If only a VPS had an option to encrypt the filesystem of a remote
 pF>> system, that would rock.

 W> https://thehelm.com/

 W> I've been eyeing these guys up, but I need someone smarter than me to
 W> tell me all about it & whether/how it works.

 W> The idea behind this service is you have the box in your house which
 W> acts as the email server.  Since residential IPs often are blocked for
 W> email services this box makes a VPN connection to their servers which
 W> do all the email connections on their side.

 W> They say they can't see any of your email traffic passing through this
 W> VPN connection, which I guess could be the case for any TLS encrypted
 W> traffic.

 W> The local hard drive is encrypted so if someone steals the device they
 W> can't access the data on it.  You can use your own domain names which
 W> is a plus, but there is no webmail which is kind of a deal-breaker for
 W> me.

 W> There's also a US$99 /year subscription cost.

it looks like an overpriced regular NAS. i don't really see the difference.
anyway, if you want security, build your own *nix/bsd machine with these
capabilities.

regards,
--
Daniel

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