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I don't get it, how is it better than RoundCube[0], Horde[1] or any other webmail clients? Out of the six "reasons", three of them are already there in the wild (privacy, self-host and no ads), I'm pretty sure two more can be found/coded (search & encryption) and the last one (speed) is completely subjective to one's usage.

I mean seriously, what's the appeal to paying for Mailpile when I could just use an open-source webmail client on my server? (Which I will by the way, thanks for the idea)

0: http://roundcube.net/

1: http://www.horde.org/apps/imp

PS: Here are more: http://www.noupe.com/ajax/10-ajax-webmail-clients.html




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