Lavabit was a company that provided this until they decided to shut down last year instead of comply with gov't requests to allow them access to the encryption keys that the company was using to encrypt all of their customer's data.

Worst than that, the owner was found to be in contempt of court when he turned over a printed copy of the encryption key in something like 2 pitch font.

If you aren't the only one with the keys to decrypt, then there is no point in using a system like this!

@Dashrender said:

@alexntg said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@alexntg said:

Does Office Home Premium include email now? I used it about a year ago, and it didn't.

Oh. Is it only the Office products?

It's a subscription to Office Home Premium desktop applications and extra OneDrive space.

Agreed, did anyone find out if it now includes email?

It doesn't include mail.

I'd like to interject a technical bit:

In this topic, people are referring to changing plans. If I want to change from an E1 plan to E3 or vice versa, I can do that at any time, with just a few clicks. That's changing plans. Changing from Small Business to Midsize Business, for example, is a change of tenant. If you want a comparison for an onsite equivalent, it's like changing over to a new AD forest. It's not something you can just do that easily.

I'm with you on Google Apps. It's a good product but it is very limited and doesn't have the look and feel of modern apps. I don't like using Gmail either. It's unnecessarily quirky and busy. Google doesn't make things as fun to use or as easy to use as they could.

I think that the Chromebook model is better than it seems. Only problem is is that businesses are struggling to adapt to it. But it is a business problem and failing, not a Google one. Google supplies the tools, business can't grok them.

In the same vein, the Linux world has everything businesses need and have for a decade or more and yet almost no businesses have cares to go down the 100% Linux path regardless of the massive savings and ease of use once the transition is over.

@Nara said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Office 2013 is slower. It just is. You have moved from a Windows native app to a web app. They don't tell you this anywhere but look closely. Office 2013 is actually running in a frameless browser.

Are you sure on that? I just took a stroll through my office directory and found all the appropriate DLL files and such that would go along with a regular program. Outlook still has all the native quirks, features, and errors that wouldn't be part of a web app.

The interface is running in the browser. It still has some hooks because lots of stuff needs the DLLs. But the part that you see is all in a frameless browser. Lots of applications run this way, it is a lot of Microsoft's vision for the future and makes sense for portability and hostability.

@black3dynamite said in Zimbra Community 8.0 Released (And Now Open Source):

@scottalanmiller said in Zimbra Community 8.0 Released (And Now Open Source):

Five years and we are still waiting on Zimbra 9 and/or the UI update 😞

What's up with the slow releases?

Not sure. They've done a lot of minor point releases since then, but no real features have updated and the UI is painfully old. They spent two years talking about, and then cancelling the bug UI update - really shot themselves in the foot there showing screenshots, overpromising, and then apparently just giving up. People really put a lot of hope in that and it just turned into vaporware.

Their acquisition by smaller and smaller companies has probably caused a lot of issues as they keep adjusting their focus and whatnot. But five years with no major updates has really showed that they just don't seem to be investing into it like they should. It was such an amazing market leader for so long. Now we worry if any major updates will ever come.

I've found that iOS calendar functions work better with push enabled, so I just turned of all notifications, sound, and such for email. Every couple of hours or so, I'll process my inbox, as well as make sure that I'm at zero before bed and when I wake up. During the workday, I process my inbox about every 40 minutes or so, but constantly work out of my "next" folder. The reason for this is that I found out that constantly trying to keep up with my email was preventing me from really getting into projects and tasks effectively. This way, I can still keep on top of email and address actionables, yet I can still perform non-email tasks effectively.

Setting Postfix up as a smarthost's pretty straightforward. I've done it in reverse as an inbound mail gateway instead of using an MS Exchange Edge Transport role. I'm guessing you'd be allowing access based on IP?

While you want to keep it simple, I can't stress strongly enough to use at least outbound spam filtering. That way, in case you do somehow start churning out spam, it'll get caught before your IP gets blacklisted.