The email situation and plan?

[Gary Kramlich]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 18:07 Matthew <matthew at ei8ht.us> wrote:

> I support this. I've not looked at mail services in 4 years or so, but I
> ended up with the aws offering when I set up Discourse back then.
>

I assume you hosted discourse on aws then too?

It would break all the links, but you _can_ import mailman archives into
> Discourse. Some messages required a bit of massaging, but it worked well.
>

Yeah I'd rather not break the urls and have to do redirect hell like I did
with wiki.imfreedom.org.

-- 
> Matthew
> (mobile)
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 16:52 Gary Kramlich <grim at reaperworld.com> wrote:
>
>> So yeah.. Another quarter and email isn't done.. Sorry this has taken
>> so long, it's just difficult and complicated.. That said, I was
>> talking to Robby O'Conner (r0bby from #pidgin) and he's in charge of
>> the infrastructure for librehealth[1] and he mentioned that they use
>> mailgun[2] for their email.
>>
>> Mailgun doesn't have an Open Source plan, which means we'd need to pay
>> for it. It does support both incoming routing rules (it looks like for
>> multiple domains but I need to confirm) as well email forwarding and
>> even a REST API if we need that for some reason. The price for 10,000
>> emails a month (their lowest plan) is $35 per month, which would be
>> about $420 USD a year. This seems like an obvious no-brainer to me as
>> supporting, securing, and maintaining an email system is no simple
>> task and we can make it not our problem for less than $500 USD a year.
>>
>> So my plan, with the board's approval, is to roll out Discourse[3] on
>> a DigitalOcean node, import the mailman users lists into it, and
>> create spaces for Pidgin, Finch, Purple, GNT, and IMFreedom on it with
>> appropriate threads and stuff to replace our existing mailing lists.
>> We would then point Discourse to the current email server that Richard
>> has patiently been hosting as I try to get this all figured out. Once
>> that move is complete, we would then replace the email server with
>> mailgun and finally move past this.
>>
>> I need to verify a few things yet, like confirming that mailgun does
>> support multiple domains, how robust their incoming filters are, and
>> testing the user import from mailman into Discourse.
>>
>> When it comes to the existing archives, the easiest solution is to
>> just dump them in a container with pipermail and serve them at the
>> existing URLs, but I'd really like to not have to require that old
>> version of mailman to get pipermail. So if anyone knows of another
>> solution, including just rendering it all out to static HTML please
>> let me know.
>>
>> Also, as a side note, I will be looking for employment soon as I'm
>> running out of funds, so if the board would like to pay me to do this
>> stuff, that would be very cool but of course not expected.
>>
>> [1] https://librehealth.io/
>> [2] https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/
>> [3] https://www.discourse.org/
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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>> Gary Kramlich <grim at reaperworld.com>
>>
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