Port87
port87.com
A new kind of email.

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 yourname-netflix@port87.com, 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.

  • hperrin@lemmy.worldOP
    3·
    1 year ago

    Thank you. :)

    Once I have IMAP working, third party clients like those will work. IMAP will also let you export and import emails.

    One of my goals is ease of use (particularly to support enterprise users), and storing emails encrypted complicates things. (You need a bridge for IMAP, and you need to index all emails on the client side to support full text search.) I will support S/MIME and OpenPGP over IMAP though, so with the right setup, emails could be end-to-end encrypted.