Intro

MainMail LLC

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 several years, bringing together insights from decades 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.

GO LIVE SOFT LAUNCH PLANNED FOR DECEMBER 10, 2024

Upon launch in December, we'll have a work-flow oriented subscription portal linked to here. This page's purpose is to introduce our business and services ahead of public availability, and will be changing after launch. We have been providing services to a group of early adopters for over two years. These beta testers have helped us to improve the service and identify bugs and offered ideas for enchancements. We will soon be offering services 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 indexed search that returns results in milliseconds. We are committed to being lower in cost than existing competitors, and completely private.

Update November 2024: Soft Launch of public services is expected by December 10!

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 Newsletter 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 are US citizens and prefer to use a service that is based in the USA, and not in 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 code glues everything together to meet our performance, privacy and security standards. We have built our core go-live features on top of open source. We will add calendar services in the next version, and will add new features and services over time. Live streaming, video conferencing, a barter portal are some of the services we are working on. Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) is key. We have deployed and will continue to improve systems which provide monitoring, detection, and alerting of security incidents/events. SIEM/Cyber security is very important to us, a key part of keeping your information private is keeping it secure. We have implemented security systems including but not limited to: patch management, firewalls, external port scanning, intrusion detection and prevention, event monitoring, and encrypted off-site backups. We are careful with project planning, and have business continuity plans: Even though we are starting small, we have 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 -ALL SSD storage- SOLR (Xapian next version) indexing for IMAP search
• Large attachment support for the domains we host
• Convert large attachments to download links (coming soon).
• Filtering Rules - unlimited sieve rules
• Unlimited Aliases
• Unlimited Identities with ONE subscription
• Two factor authentication (coming soon).
• SMS Notification of Urgent or Rule-based messages received (coming soon)
• Calendaring (Next version, early 2025)
• 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 (Important 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 with the database in cluster mode, and mail directories replicated in near real-time to standby. Our technology plan for email is to replace dovecot with Cyrus Imap in order to deploy server clusters. This will also allow us to provide calendaring services. We are Cassandra and Mariadb experts. The datbases are now a replicated cluster and syncronized to all production servers. As we move to a multi-site configuration, one site will become primary and the other secondary. Our goal is always-on, no downtime services. A page displaying all licenses of open source we use will be published before our public soft-launch.

There is more about our technology on the Newsletter 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. This page was written up before Twitter had a change of ownership, and with that change freedom of speech has improved (in our opinion). 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 many tech companies is a commitment to the principle of free speech and to equal rights, based on a wider criteria than they now employ.
Many large tech companies now discriminate based on a persons worldview and political views or affiliation. This is a relatively new development in our history, something that has slowly grown worse over time. This discrimination is usually based on the level of acceptance of the "official narrative." Twenty years ago, conservatives and liberals worked together in tech companies side by side. This is now very rare. 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 social or societal issues. The current big tech culture has forgotten the core values that most Americans 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. We feel that a number of small businesses provide a better ecosystem for our Republic than concentrated centralized large ones. That's why MainMail LLC has been founded. 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.