Intro

Mainmail.us

TL;DR for the impatient:

We are a startup tech business offering private, high performance email, mailing list services, and web site hosting. We offer high performance email accounts for our domains, custom domains, and business domains. Business domains are given an email management portal and are priced competitively based on usage. We will continue to roll out features such as notes and calendaring. Sign up for a newsletter to learn more, or request to be a pre-release customer.

In More Detail
This site is family owned and operated. We have been working on the technology for this site for many months, bringing together insights from years of working in engineering and management at various technology businesses. This site and business is leveraging decades of experience of the founders.
The services of this site have been well tested and tuned, and are working well for our users. The most important features are listed under Technology

We're busy getting ready to hang up the "Open for Business" sign. Our core services are functioning at enterprise quality now. If you want to try our services before launch, sign up for our newsletter. We'll publish a go-live date here soon.

This page's purpose is to introduce our business and services ahead of public availability. We do provide services now to some early adopters. We will soon be offering these to the general public within the USA. We are providing modern private and secure email (on our domains and on custom domains). We can provide email tailored for the needs of your business. For example, your business may need to send very large attachments within your organization. Your needs may include HIPPA compliance. Whatever the special need is, we're here to fill it.

Our main goal is to keep your data private and secure.

In addition to simple personal email accounts, we provide "high touch" services that are different from the various big hosting companies. All our services are accommodating of special needs. Web site hosting for those who need something less constrained than the typical Wordpress or Godaddy template. We also have competitively priced mailing list services.
Services are being provided for early adopters who have agreed to become paying customers (pre-release customers, after launch, have guaranteed monthly or annual subscription at a reduced rate).
If you have found this site while looking for an email provider, and are interested- We'd love to keep you informed about what's coming. We hope you become a customer, and take advantage of our high performance email infrastructure, which includes Lucene indexed search that returns results in milliseconds. We are committed to being lower in cost, and private.
If you are interested in being an investor, employee or wish to become a pre-launch user of our services, click the link to the mailing list page, and choose the option to contact the administrator. Otherwise, simply sign up for the appropriate mailing list: for general information: Subscribe to Mainmail News Or investors: Investor List

Experience - Technology

New HOW-TO Page and FAQ for Email Subscribers Coming Soon.

We have been developing a suite of technology services that perform the way we want the services we use daily to perform. Paid and free email services we were using disappointed us in some way: Speed, functionality, features, and privacy policies.
We don't want to use a service that is based in Switzerland, a country so far away that latency harms performance noticeably.
We would like to hear from our potential and pre-release customers about how things are working and will be happy to entertain any feature requests.

After decades of working for various sized technology companies, our founders and systems architect have selected the best of open source software for email, mailing lists, webmail and web hosting, and of course we have been developing our own code as well. We'll contribute back to the open source projects we use. We're committed to open source. Open source alone provides us with the platforms, while our custom code glues everything together securely while meeting our performance standards. We have built our core go-live features on top of open source. We will add calendar services and other new features. For example: We have been evaluating open source video conferencing software, but have not yet found software that performs to our expectations. We have implemented security systems including but not limited to: patch management, firewalls, external port scanning, intrusion detection and prevention, event monitoring, and off-site backups. We do careful project planning, and have business continuity plans: Even though we're starting small, we've ticked off all the boxes of an enterprise IT department.

Key features of email include (but not limited to):

• Per mailbox account spam control and rules
• High performance indexing for IMAP search
• Large attachment support for the domains we host
• Convert large attachments to download links when needed.
• Filtering Rules - unlimited
• Unlimited Aliases
• Privacy- your personal data is not shared with any other entity- ever
• One-to-many mailing list/newsletter services

The mailing list system is based on the highly popular and extremely functional PHPList, as well as our own code additions. Note: We have not changed anything in the code of any of the open source programs, and when we do we will publish those changes as per the license agreements. Our custom code runs besides or in addition to the open source. Our IMAP software is the open source which runs about 73% of all email, dovecot. Our high availability model currently is based on hot standby servers. Our technology plan for email is to move our dovecot from open source to dovecot Pro to deploy server clusters. We are Cassandra experts here and appreciate the choice of C* by Open-Xchange. We also plan to move the PHPList datbase to Cassandra and develop a cluster architecture for the mailing list system to distribute the load. We will publish that code and offer it back to the PHPList project maintainers.

There is more about our technology on the subscription page for investors.

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Vision and Values

Our vision of the future is one where technology is decentralized as compared to today. We feel that big tech has become antithetical to the very concept of a democratic republic, the partner of big government in censorship, and the arbiter of speech. Without freedom of speech, the republic dies. We believe that the authors of the US Constitution would be unhappy with the state of the union. What we see missing from 'woke' tech companies is a commitment to the principle of free speech and to equal rights based on a wider criteria than they employ.
Big tech companies now discriminate based on worldview and political views. This is a new development in our history, as this discrimination based on the level of acceptance of the "official narrative" is a very new phenomena. We believe that no person should be discriminated against on the basis of age, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and political party affiliation, or world view.
We believe that no person should be discriminated against for their opinions on things like vaccine safety and efficacy, climate science. The current culture has forgotten the core values that we once all shared. We may not endorse the views, or the speech. But we feel that the principle of free speech demands tolerance most of all to speech we abhor. Tolerance of dissenting speech has been lost in the current milieu. We want to help bring it back.

It has become established that the national security state, 3 letter agencies have a revolving door with big tech and legacy media companies. We have zero ties to these agencies and will protect the data under our stewardship from them to the best of our ability. We are deeply troubled by the current state of affairs and want to be part of the solutions. If you are unhappy with the big tech, as we are, please consider becoming a customer. Or sign up to use our service free pre-release. Help us prove that a small technology business can succeed in the emerging parallel economy. Small business is more likely to provide high quality services. You can join our mailing lists, or visit this site again to be informed of when services become available.

In fact, our existence is part of a larger grassroots reaction against that loss. It used to be the norm in the workplace to not discriminate against any employee because of their political views or party. We feel that it is fundamentally un-American to discriminate against a person based on their level of compliance to an "official narrative." We oppose the intention of large corporations in collusion with government to force ESG on the population. It is not coherent with a free and democratic society. Let's make freedom of political affiliation safe again. We welcome independents, Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens etc. to be customers. Let's make America civil again. It was not long ago that political diversity was an American value. Now, companies discriminate on the basis of your political party. Orwellian "right think" is here, and it's a threat. This is what we're fighting. While we're at it, lets bring civil discourse back! The current censorship regime globally is being promoted by a small group of oligarchs that have an agenda of domination and control. Humanity is at a crossroads and must choose between transhumanism/technocracy and a natural, organic future, based on a return to our core values. A digital prison is being built to enslave every human on the planet. It's being done under the guise of "sustainability and equity." This is only a facade. The US Constitution stands in their way, but UN treaties are gaining force of law and subverting and contradicting the values of that Constituion. It's up to each of us to become aware of the global domination and control agenda, and collectively to stop it. Independent technology businesses can help guide humanity to a future of freedom and liberty. Freedom of speech is key.