social.pollux.casa

Christmas is often the time when geeks get bombarded with technical questions from their loved ones. Last year, I was giving my opinion on Gmail accounts and was asked what alternative to use for email. I was a bit stumped for an answer: ProtonMail or Tuta? But they regularly encourage you to switch to the paid version and use their other services (VPN, drive, password vault, etc.). In addition, standard email clients are not compatible.

That's what gave me the idea to offer https://message.casa, an email account (with an XMPP account) that is limited in size but free and complies with standard IMAP/POP3/SMTP protocols.

So, if you too are asked about email accounts at Christmas, you can suggest message.casa ;-)

Message.casa ist jetzt auch auf Deutsch verfügbar!

https://message.casa/de ist ein kostenloser E-Mail- und Instant-Messaging-Dienst, der sich auf Datenschutz konzentriert und auf den Prinzipien des Smolweb basiert: leicht, zielgerichtet und respektvoll gegenüber Ihrem digitalen Raum.

Ich veröffentliche regelmäßig Einladungscodes (die für die Erstellung eines Kontos erforderlich sind) sowie bereits registrierte Benutzer.

Some active invite codes for https://message.casa are available here

¡Message.casa también está disponible en español!

https://message.casa/es es un servicio gratuito de correo electrónico y mensajería instantánea centrado en la privacidad, basado en los principios de la smolweb: ligero, intencional y respetuoso con tu espacio digital.

Publico regularmente códigos de invitación (necesarios para crear una cuenta), así como usuarios ya registrados.

Message.casa est aussi disponible en français !

https://message.casa/fr est un service gratuit d’email et de messagerie instantanée axé sur la confidentialité, construit sur les principes du smolweb : léger, intentionnel et respectueux de votre espace numérique.

Je publie régulièrement des codes d'invitation (nécessaire à la création de compte), ainsi que les utilisateurs déjà enregistrés.

I hope I’ll be able to finalise tests on https://message.casa/ this evening/night : main services are ok (postfix, dovecot, rspamd, snappy&nocc webmails, prosody) but anonymous registration method with invite codes needs to be overtested to avoid malicious accounts

#gotosocial instance upgraded to version 0.20.2 !

so easy

https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.20.2

I don't manage to get time to end writing the account management process of https://message.casa

It is not complicated, just registration with an invite code, and password change, but they must be secured processes.

I'd like to keep accounts anonymous, just a login and a password, without requiring an alternative email address. But this implies that it is not possible to get a link to reset the password.
Isn't it too dangerous to not have this possibility? If you lose your password, you definitively lose your account!

It's not a good idea to send the reset link to the message.casa address. If you want to reset your password, it could be because someone has stollen your device or your session.

Is there a good design pattern to reset a password without a "backup" alternative email address?

#smolweb #privacy #anonymity

I don't find reliable api description/spec for remote #ISPConfig
Is anybody having such a document?

After discussions with #smolweb fans, it appears to be a good idea to add thead, tbody and tfoot to the smolweb #HTML subset.

Their semantic roles add more accessibility to the table structure.

https://smolweb.org/specs/element-table.html

⚠️ Coming soon!

#smolweb #email #xmpp

https://message.casa/en/

⚠️ #archlinux breaking upgrade ⚠️

#dovecot >= 2.4 requires manual intervention

https://archlinux.org/news/dovecot-24-requires-manual-intervention/

Brand new #smolweb theme for #hugo #gohugo

A lightweight Hugo theme following SmolWeb specifications with CSS Grade B compliance.

Features

• SmolWeb Compliant: Follows SmolWeb guidelines for lightweight, accessible web design
• CSS Grade B: Uses only essential and basic responsive CSS properties
• Hugo v0.146.0+ Compatible: Uses the new template system structure
• Multilingual: Full support for multiple languages with Hugo's i18n (ready for en, fr, es, pt, de, it, pl, nl, ru, ja, zh, ar, sv, no)
• Categories & Tags: Built-in taxonomy support with clean archive pages
• Pagination: Automatic pagination for posts, sections, and taxonomy pages
• Dark Mode: Automatic dark theme based on system preferences (prefers-color-scheme)
• Centralized Colors: Efficient color management using CSS selector grouping (3 foreground + 3 background colors)
• No JavaScript: Works perfectly without any client-side scripts
• Semantic HTML5: Proper use of semantic elements (header, main, nav, article, aside, footer)
• System Fonts Only: No web font loading - uses system font stacks
• RSS Feeds: Built-in RSS support for content syndication
• Accessible: Works with screen readers and text-only browsers
• Print Friendly: Optimized print styles included

https://codeberg.org/smolweb/hugo-smolweb

currently building a #hugo theme respecting #smolweb concept.
I need it for future message.casa website.

A new guide to CSS best practices for a better #SmolWeb

SmolWeb CSS Grading Specification

https://smolweb.org/css-grading.html

Who will do +1️⃣ ?
😊

Is anybody here using #SquirrelMail as webmail?

It is a PHP webmail without javascript.

I would like to have your feedback

https://github.com/RealityRipple/squirrelmail

#smolweb

I don't want to react to the AWS breakdown (even if this toot looks like that).
Telling that you should use a different service, your own server, or whatever to avoid a breakdown is stupid. All solutions are subject to breakdown and AWS isn't the worst.

Yesterday's problem just shows the hegemony of AWS (and other Big Tech actors), even for non-American structures. It should just make us aware that a unilateral decision by the United States could harm any country without military intervention.

It's time to dig up a post from the beginning of the year:

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/what-if-us-cut-off-big-tech-from-europe.md

For the incoming message.casa mailbox hosting (see https://social.pollux.casa/@adele/statuses/01K7J5JX8JHSPNE8RMPQT9J8RT ), I plan to use a different character for the "plus addressing".

pseudo+amazon@message.casa is too easy to break by email address scrappers. They remove the + and the following before selling your address.

I would like to use a different character, but this one could not be present in the main pseudo to avoid naming conflict.

first.lastname-amazon@message.casa if I set the dash as separator (but no dash in the pseudo).

first-lastname.amazon@message.casa if I set the dot as separator (but no dot in the pseudo)

I don't know which is the best option 🤔

#postfix #email

Oh Noooo! 😱​
Who wants such an app??

"PicSee is the simplest way in the world, to get all your unseen pics from your friends devices!

It's the World’s First #AI enabled Mutual Photo Sharing app.

Your friends get their photos from you only when they give you yours. Using AI facial recognition, PicSee finds unseen photos of you on friends’ devices and delivers them after a simple one-time, mutual approval."

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/15/co-founder-of-indian-social-network-koo-releases-a-new-photo-sharing-app/