[Help Request] Magma's built-in webmail system status/todo.

[ladar]

@gabrielmongefranco thank you for contacting me. To answer your query regarding webmail, the system built directly into magma is only about 80% complete. When development stalled in 2013 all that was left were the RPC calls needed to retrieve (and sanitize) an email message body (aka content), and the calls needed to send a message. Other problems have probably crept in since then. I don't reccomend exposing the magma HTTP server to the public network until it's been reviewed, and improved. What it really needs is someone dedicated to finishing and maintaining it. At the request of a contributor I wrote a developer guide awhile back, but the person who volunteered to work on the webmail system never made any progress.

Your welcome to play with what has already been done.. Assuming your running the vagrant sandbox environment, you should be able to access the webmail system via https://localhost:10500/webmail/ assuming port 10500 in the guest has been properly mapped to your host.

That said, because of the inherent security problem with loading keys/data and the code to use it from a server (i.e. the HushMail incident involving Thomas Drake) we've been more focused on developing Volcano, our forthcoming thick mail client. So it hasn't seen much active development since 2013.

While Lavabit doesn't currently offer webmail access because of this, a number of other companies (ie OnionBit) use f/oss webmail systems which access magma over IMAP. That is in fact how the pre-2013 Lavabit webmail system also worked.