Mailpile: IndieGoGo Campaign from Brennan Novak on Vimeo.

Our friends in Iceland have launched an amibitious crowdfunding campaign to support the full time development of MailPile a secure email platform for the masses. By creating a secure, open source & free software email alternative Mailpile aims to take email back from corporations & large silo companies like Gmail & Hotmail.
Considering increased government surveillance worldwide, now more than ever we need projects like MailPile to succeed.

“What We Need & What You Get
Our goal is to fund two to three man-years of full time work on Mailpile, with our first milestone in January 2014, when we will deliver an alpha version with the following properties:

A modern, open source web-mail application which runs well either on a personal computer or in the cloud
An intuitive, beautiful user interface that is a joy to use
User-friendly support for both OpenPGP and S/MIME encryption and signatures
A very fast, scalable search engine
Internationalization support, so Mailpile can speak your language
Sensible defaults that improve your workflow and help you handle incoming mail
A platform developers can customize and build upon, including a plugin architecture, support for themes and alternate user interfaces and of course good documentation

We also have some stretch goals which we will work on later, if we raise extra money:

A simple installer for non-technical Windows and Mac users
A plug-and-play distribution of Mailpile for USB keys
Build-in support for XMPP (Jabber) chat
A multi-user version of Mailpile for use by families, groups of friends or small businesses

Following our alpha release, we will spend another 6-9 months fixing bugs, fleshing out features, responding to user feedback and getting the user interface translated to languages other than English. Our goal is to have a stable 1.0 release ready in the summer of 2014.”

To support go to http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mailpile-taking-e-mail-back