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2. Hosting CryptoMail Email System

2.1 Can anyone host his/her own CryptoMail Email System?

Everyone is allowed to host his/her own CryptoMail Email System, since CryptoMail.org has licensed our email system under the GNU General Public License. Moreover, you are welcome to change the style of the email system to fit your website.

2.2 What do I need to host my CryptoMail Email System?

You will need a MySQL server and a web server with CGI capability to host the CryptoMail Email System for exchanging messages within a LAN environment. If you are planning to use the email system to communicate over the Internet, you are required to have a IP address and a Sendmail (SMTP) email server for the Internet. Before hosting your own CryptoMail Email System, you have to make sure that all supporting servers (e.g. MySQL, httpd and sendmail) are running properly. For the hardware, the CryptoMail Email Server can run on a low-end computer system (e.g. Pentium 100MHz with 16Mb RAM). Administrators should prepare a large storage space for the encrypted messages in the user email account, because the encrypted messages are generally significantly larger than the plain text messages.

In the System Requirement at the CryptoMail.org, you should find detailed software and hardware requirements for the CryptoMail System.

2.3 Where can I get the newest version of CryptoMail Email System?

You can get the newest official CryptoMail Email System from Download at CryptoMail.org.

If your organization is interested in becoming a mirror site for distributing CryptoMail Email System, please contact Stan Osborne (stan@cryptomail.org).

CryptoMail System Administrators FAQs, Version 0.10, 9/25/2000

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