Potential user here: Wondering if Mailpile is ready to use


#1

Hello, sorry if I’ve stumbled into a developers only forum. I’m not really a developer at all, though I’ve “helped” my son a little on a database project he was building for me.

My question is whether Mailpile would be suitable for a secure, private email system for a small charity. I’m on the board and was appointed to be in charge of communications. We currently use a hodge podge of email clients and sometimes send confidential info like a spreadsheet of people who purchased tickets to an event, or member lists, donors etc. & it doesn’t seem to be a very secure or private way of sharing such information to me.

PGP always sounded like a great idea to me but it seems rather complicated to install and use for most email clients and I think it would be an uphill battle to get everyone to get set up with most systems I’ve seen.

Proton mail sounds like a relatively simple solution, but Mailpile sounds even better if it is already to go.

As noted earlier, I’m not a developer, but I saw on the front page that: * Next Milestone: 1.0

That almost sounds to me like it’s perhaps in Beta mode?

Would you consider it safe enough and secure and private enough for the use I’ve described above?


#2

Unless you are a developer, getting Mailpile up an running is still rather fraught.

I really should update our website to bring it more in line with reality, it’s making promises we can’t really keep at the moment.

Sorry!


#3

OK, thank you for your reply.

This sounds like a wonderful project. PGP sounds like a great privacy aid, but it seems like not many people use it nor have the ability to at the moment. Hopefully Mailpile will be a nice catalyst for getting the non-tech savvy public to get on board.

It seems like once enough people start using it things will begin to snowball and it will become a standard part of everyone’s life.

Thank you for all you guys do.