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I made an alternative to Gmail. (port87.com)
submitted 1 year ago by hperrin to c/[email protected]
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Hi, I’m Hunter Perrin, and I made a new email service called Port87.

Gmail was a great email service back in 2006, but now it just sucks. They put ads in your inbox that look like unread emails to trick you into clicking them. To me, that means Gmail is malware.

I’ve been degoogling my life for the past 7 years, and Gmail is the last Google service I depended on. I love ProtonMail and use it too, but I developed a new way to sort email automatically, and wanted to write my own service based on it.

Port87 lets you use a tagged address like [email protected], and that automically creates a “netflix” label and puts all email to that address in it. This helps keep your email organized automatically, and protects against spam and phishing.

The database abstraction library I wrote for Port87 is called Nymph.js, and it’s open source. Also the UI library I wrote is called Svelte Material UI, and it’s open source too.

I hope you all like it, and hopefully it can help migrate away from Gmail.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are all of its components open source?

[–] hperrin 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not all. It’s made of mostly open source components though, with proprietary parts added on top. Here are the open source components it uses:

Components by others:

  • Node.js
  • Express.js
  • Haraka
  • SvelteKit
  • Svelte

Components made by me:

  • Nymph.js
  • Svelte Material UI

(These lists are not exhaustive.)

I am also going to incorporate Nephele (the WebDAV server) and a yet to be named IMAP server into it, which are open source projects of mine.