[Chapter-delegates] Very safe email from the Chapter Community Tools project

[Dewole Ajao]

Thanks a lot, ISOCNL! The website template helped our (newish) chapter get a web presence running in no time. 

Will be quite happy to beta-test a self-hosted version of the “very safe email” and possibly teach others. 

Regards,
Dewole. 
Nigeria Chapter. 

Sent from a mobile device. Please excuse typos and autocorrect strangeness. 

> On 12 Feb 2018, at 10:33 PM, Alexander Blom <alexander.blom at budgetphone.nl> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> 
> As you all know the Chapter Community Tools project has been working hard on making a real difference, together with a number of open source projects.
> Good news: as a new service from the Chapter Community Tools project we offer the participating chapters (that could be your chapter!) secure hosted
> emailboxes that strive to be 100% compliant with modern email standards such as DKIM, SPF, DMARC, StartTLS (with TLS 1.2), POP3, IMAPS and more.
> Shortly we intend to also provide DANE/TLSA records, webmail and email lists. Note that we offer this as a beta currently, as we are still ironing out issues.
> 
> So if you are embarrassed that you have to exchange email with your chapter members from a 'free' email account that makes you and the chapter look unprofessional, does not adhere to internet standards and also infringes on your members' privacy? Did you run the email test from internet.nl and saw the possibility to improve your security - but were uncertain how? Do you want to "practise what you preach" when it comes to supporting modern internet standards? Then, jump on board!
> 
> There are a number of convenient tiers, depending on how much you want and can do yourself:
> 
> Mail under internetsociety.info
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> 
> E.g.: chaptername at internetsociety.info
> 
> You get a secure mailbox to use for incoming and outgoing mail from your chapter, which you can optionally share with multiple officers within your chapter. There is no need for any technical infrastructure at your end. All you need to do is configure your email client. We provide SRV records (RFC XXX) so this is done almost automatically.
> 
> Dp you want to make use of this? Send a very safe mail to michiel at internetsociety.info with your chaptername (or your own name) and we will send you the configuration instructions and take care of the rest.
> 
> 
> Mail under your own chapter domain name
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> 
> (This can also be a subdomain of your chaptername)
> 
> E.g. board at chaptername.tld, president at isoc.tld, 会長@board.isoc.tld
> 
> We can provide aliases (soon with SRS) or full IMAP/POP3 mailboxes for your officers and project teams.
> 
> If you want to use the hosted service, you will need to add a record to your DNS that points to toolkit.internetsociety.info.
> 
> Do you want to make use of this? Send a very safe mail to michiel at internetsociety.info with what you would like to do and we will send you the configuration instructions and take care of the rest.
> 
> 
> Self Hosted
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> 
> Of course the whole idea is that you can set this up yourself, and teach others how to do it. The chapter toolkit contains some pretty unique technology, and greatly simplifies setup and maintenance through three related open source projects - Nix, NixOS and Nixcloud webservices. Nix offers declarative package management, reproducible builds, atomic upgrade and many more wonderful features.
> 
> All you need to run email on your own trusted infrastructure is access to some real or virtual hardware. We are looking to support ARM (e.g. Raspberry Pi), Risk V and other setups later on. First you install NixOS, and add the Nixcloud Services and our declarative configuration.
> There is a single text file in which everything is managed. You change the domain name to yourdomain.tld, configure the IP addresses, add the accounts you want and run. It will automatically retrieve certificates (if you have your own certificates which you want to use, you can of course use those). There is some documentation with Nixcloud webservices, and we can offer best effort support in setting this up.
> If there is interest, we can see if we can use Nixops (yet another related project) to install.
> 
> Do you want to make use of this? Send a very safe mail to michiel at internetsociety.info with what you would like to do and we will help you along.
> 
> Our goal to provide the technically most advanced and modern internet infrastructure we can. If you have *any* technical remarks or suggestions how we can further harden our setup or make improvements, please let us know. Or better: join us and help to make the internet belong to everybody again!
> 
> 
> More coming
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> Note that we are working hard to provide you with more internet goodness, either conveniently hosted or self-hostable. This includes SIP, XMPP, WebRTC, and much more. Watch this space.
> 
> Best,
> 
> On behalf of ISOCNL
> Michiel Leenaars
> Alexander Blom
> 
> 
> 
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