[HacktionLab] online storage on email [was something else]

[mick fuzz]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Alan Dawson <aland at burngreave.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 02:44:15PM +0100, m3shrom wrote:
> >
> > What is the alternative? aktivix and rise up have very limited email
> > quotas. Maybe they suit people who stay at home all the time, whose
> > computer never breaks down, who know how to make email back ups and
> > merge them etc. But how hard is that?
>
> aktivix don't have an email quota.
> Largest mailbox is about 9G in size.
>
>
> isn't webmail is the original cloud(tm) service?
> Use IMAP, sort your email into several imap folders so that performance
> doesn't suck.
>

Good Tip! I wonder if there is any help on how to do that online.

You've got webmail ( access anywhere, but perhaps insecure if you use
> untrusted computers, choice of interface (aktivix provide horde or roundcube
> )) or use a mail client like thunderbird on a desktop PC.
>
> Does that not do it for you ?
>
>
Thanks for that info!
I didn't know that there was no quota for aktivix - I feel my ears getting a
bit red with shame.


> >
> > Case Study - My laptop is behaving strangely and I've 2 years of aktivix
> > email which isn't backed up. I also want to be able to search email
> > previously stored in yahoo which I don't use a lot. And I have a gmail
> > account I'd like to stop using. I'm getting a new netbook with limited
> > space on it. I want to be good and want to start again.
> > What's the best plan for me?
> > (this is actually a real case for me)
> >
>
> Regarding backups, I have some similar requirements. I've been getting
> interested in tahoe-lafs concepts [http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs],
> and how it may solve those problems; though I have done nothing practical
> yet.
> From the website "Tahoe-LAFS is a Free and Open cloud storage system. It
> distributes your data across multiple servers. Even if some of the servers
> fail or are taken over by an attacker, the entire filesystem continues to
> function correctly, including preservation of your privacy and security."
>
> If anybody is interested in setting up a community tahoe-lafs storage grid
> I'd love to chat about it.
>

Sounds interesting!
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