Today's Deep-Dive: Cyrus IMAP

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[SPEAKER_00] Yeah, we're pulling back the curtain today.

[SPEAKER_01] We are.

[SPEAKER_01] We're looking at a remarkably resilient piece of software called Cyrus AMP.

[SPEAKER_00] It's a technology that silently powers so much of what we do.

[SPEAKER_00] I mean, think about it.

[SPEAKER_00] We spend hours every single day inside our inboxes, booking meetings on our calendars, pulling up client contacts.

[SPEAKER_00] But very few people actually understand the machinery humming beneath the surface that makes those actions possible.

[SPEAKER_01] Right, so our goal today is to demystify that machinery for you.

[SPEAKER_01] We're breaking down what an email, contacts, and calendar server actually is.

[SPEAKER_00] Breaking it accessible.

[SPEAKER_01] Exactly.

[SPEAKER_01] We want to make sure that anyone, even if your background is in marketing or operations, not computer science can conceptualize how an inbox functions behind the scenes.

[SPEAKER_01] OK, let's unpack this.

[SPEAKER_01] To truly grasp why we are looking at Cyrus IM specifically, rather than just any generic off-the-shelf mail server, we have to look at its specific architectural philosophy.

[SPEAKER_00] We do.

[SPEAKER_00] And to do that, we have to rewind a bit.

[SPEAKER_00] We have to go back to 1993.

[SPEAKER_01] Wow, 1993.

[SPEAKER_00] Specifically to Carnegie Mellon University.

[SPEAKER_01] 1993.

[SPEAKER_01] I mean, that is the dawn of the public internet, as most people know it.

[SPEAKER_00] It really is.

[SPEAKER_00] And Cyrus IMP has been under active development since then.

[SPEAKER_00] But it is vital to understand that it is not some obsolete historical relic.

[SPEAKER_01] Right.

[SPEAKER_01] It's not a museum piece.

[SPEAKER_00] Not at all.

[SPEAKER_00] It is actively used today in massive production systems all around the globe.

[SPEAKER_00] It's trusted by major universities and gigantic private enterprises.

[SPEAKER_01] But the thing that really separates it from the pack, the core philosophy that has kept it relevant and highly sought after for over three decades, is this concept of being a sealed server.

[SPEAKER_00] Yes.

[SPEAKER_00] The sealed server design is its defining characteristic.

[SPEAKER_00] So in a traditional older Linux or Unix setup, the people who use the server might also have some level access to the underlying operating system.

[SPEAKER_01] Like they could poke around in the files.

[SPEAKER_00] Right.

[SPEAKER_00] Their emails might just be text files sitting in a folder that they could technically open with a text editor if they wanted to.

[SPEAKER_01] OK, got it.

[SPEAKER_00] But with Cyrus, normal users are absolutely not permitted to log directly into the server's operating system.

[SPEAKER_01] Like, not at all.

[SPEAKER_00] Not at all.

[SPEAKER_00] Zero access.

[SPEAKER_00] The mailbox database is stored in parts of the file system that are entirely private to the Cyrus IM system itself.

[SPEAKER_00] It is completely locked away from standard user access.

[SPEAKER_01] I was trying to visualize this when I was looking through the sources and the best analogy I could come up with is a highly secure bank vault.

[SPEAKER_00] Oh, that's a good way to look at it.

[SPEAKER_01] Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01] So you are a customer of the bank and your money, which is your emails, your calendar data, is sitting safely inside that massive steel vault.

[SPEAKER_01] But you don't get to just walk into the vault and start rummaging through the safety deposit boxes yourself.

[SPEAKER_00] Because if every customer did that, it would be absolute chaos.

[SPEAKER_00] People would accidentally take the wrong files or leave the boxes open.

[SPEAKER_01] Right, exactly.

[SPEAKER_01] So instead, you have to go to the teller window.

[SPEAKER_01] You present your ID.

[SPEAKER_01] You request your specific box.

[SPEAKER_01] And the teller, who is the only one allowed inside the vault, goes in, retrieves exactly what you are authorized to see, and slides it across the counter to you.

[SPEAKER_00] That's brilliant.

[SPEAKER_01] And in this scenario, the user is the customer, and Cyrus IAM's P's software protocols are the tellers.

[SPEAKER_00] That is a highly accurate way to conceptualize the architecture.

[SPEAKER_01] But I'm going to play the skeptic here on behalf of the beginner IT admin who might be listening and thinking about setting this up.

[SPEAKER_00] Sure, lay it on me.

[SPEAKER_01] If the vault is entirely sealed off, doesn't that make it incredibly frustrating to maintain?

[SPEAKER_01] Say a file gets corrupted or something just goes wrong.

[SPEAKER_01] If the IT administrator is locked away from using their normal operating system tools to just open the file and fix it manually, isn't that a total nightmare?

[SPEAKER_00] It's a very fair question to ask.

[SPEAKER_00] But what's fascinating here is that the sealed design is actually the very thing that makes Cyrus so incredibly powerful.

[SPEAKER_01] Really?

[SPEAKER_01] How so?

[SPEAKER_00] By locking away that database and forcing everyone to use the tellers, the server gains massive advantages in efficiency, in scalability, and ultimately in data integrity.

[SPEAKER_01] Walk me through that.

[SPEAKER_01] Why is it more efficient to be locked out?

[SPEAKER_00] Think about what happens when thousands of people or even just a few dozen highly active devices are trying to access the system at the exact same millisecond.

[SPEAKER_00] OK. Let's say you are checking your email on your phone.

[SPEAKER_00] At that exact second, your laptop is downloading a massive PDF attachment and a server somewhere else is delivering a brand new message to your inbox.

[SPEAKER_01] So that's three different actions trying to manipulate the exact same inbox simultaneously?

[SPEAKER_00] Precisely.

[SPEAKER_00] In a standard unsealed file system, if multiple programs try to write to a file at the same time, they trip over each other.

[SPEAKER_01] Oh, they clash.

[SPEAKER_00] Yeah, the file gets corrupted, the data is destroyed.

[SPEAKER_00] But because Cyrus completely controls the environment, because it's the only entity allowed inside that vault,

[SPEAKER_00] It acts like a flawless traffic cop.

[SPEAKER_01] Oh, I see.

[SPEAKER_00] It safely permits multiple concurrent read and write connections to the exact same mailbox without ever risking a collision.

[SPEAKER_01] OK, that makes total sense.

[SPEAKER_01] So it sacrifices a little bit of casual tinkering capability to guarantee that your data is never accidentally shredded by conflicting commands.

[SPEAKER_00] Exactly.

[SPEAKER_00] Which is why massive enterprises trust it with their critical communication.

[SPEAKER_01] But a sealed vault is completely useless if the actual owner can't get their money out right.

[SPEAKER_00] Very true.

[SPEAKER_01] Since the vault is completely locked down from the operating system we need to understand exactly how our phones and laptops actually pull the data down.

[SPEAKER_01] We need to look closely at those tellers at the window.

[SPEAKER_00] Right, the application protocols.

[SPEAKER_00] Because all access to the Cyrus system happens through these specific standardized languages.

[SPEAKER_01] And there are quite a few of them.

[SPEAKER_01] I mean, the software is literally called Cyrus IMAP.

[SPEAKER_01] But IMAP is really just the starting point, isn't it?

[SPEAKER_00] It is.

[SPEAKER_00] IMAP, the Internet Message Access Protocol, is the classic reliable standard for syncing mail across devices.

[SPEAKER_00] But Cyrus also supports POP3, which is an older way of downloading mail.

[SPEAKER_00] And it supports NNTP.

[SPEAKER_01] Hold on.

[SPEAKER_01] NNTP.

[SPEAKER_01] The documentation referred to that as network news.

[SPEAKER_01] But for a modern user, what does that actually mean?

[SPEAKER_00] Right.

[SPEAKER_00] So NNTP stands for Network News Transfer Protocol.

[SPEAKER_00] It's the technology that powered the old school Usenet bulletin boards well before modern social media or forums even existed.

[SPEAKER_01] Oh, wow.

[SPEAKER_01] Blast from the past.

[SPEAKER_00] Totally.

[SPEAKER_00] But what Cyrus does that is so clever is it allows organizations to use that bulletin board protocol to access shared public folders.

[SPEAKER_01] OK. How does that help?

[SPEAKER_00] Well, instead of emailing a massive company-wide announcement to 500 individual inboxes, you post it once to a shared space using NNTP.

[SPEAKER_00] And everyone's email client can just read it from there.

[SPEAKER_01] Oh, wow.

[SPEAKER_01] That is a massive reduction in storage space.

[SPEAKER_00] Very much so.

[SPEAKER_00] And alongside those older protocols, it crucially supports JMAP.

[SPEAKER_01] JMAT is the newer standard, right?

[SPEAKER_01] The one optimized for mobile.

[SPEAKER_00] Yes, the JSON Meta Application Protocol.

[SPEAKER_00] It's designed specifically to be lightweight and much more efficient for modern mobile devices and webmail clients that might drop their network connection frequently.

[SPEAKER_01] But the real standout for me, the thing that shows the elegance of this engineering, is that it isn't just about email.

[SPEAKER_01] We're talking about the complete holy trinity of office communication.

[SPEAKER_00] Mail, calendars, and contacts.

[SPEAKER_01] Exactly.

[SPEAKER_01] But instead of forcing you to use a proprietary app to view them, Cyrus handles calendars via a protocol called Call Day and contacts via Card Dayby.

[SPEAKER_00] And if we connect this to the bigger picture,

[SPEAKER_00] You have to understand why supporting this long, seemingly exhausting list of acronyms is the ultimate selling point for an organization looking to deploy this.

[SPEAKER_01] Why is that?

[SPEAKER_00] It's about universal compatibility.

[SPEAKER_00] By speaking IMAP, JMAP, Colavi, and Carddevi, Cyrus ensures that it doesn't matter if your CEO uses Apple Mail on an iPhone, your accounting team uses Microsoft Outlook on a PC, and your developers use Thunderbird on Linux.

[SPEAKER_01] The server speaks everyone's language natively.

[SPEAKER_00] Exactly.

[SPEAKER_01] You aren't forcing your entire staff to learn a new app just because you changed the backend server.

[SPEAKER_00] Which is huge for adoption.

[SPEAKER_01] Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00] It completely decouples the backend storage from the front-end user experience.

[SPEAKER_00] Now once those various apps actually connect to the teller window, Cyra still has to manage who is allowed to take what.

[SPEAKER_01] Right.

[SPEAKER_00] It does this using access control lists or ACLs.

[SPEAKER_01] So ACLs are essentially the permissions.

[SPEAKER_00] Yes.

[SPEAKER_00] If you have an info ad or sales at shared team inbox, the ACLs are the rules that ensure only the five people on the sales team can read or reply to those specific messages.

[SPEAKER_00] And to keep things running smoothly, Cyrus pairs those ACLs with strict storage quotas.

[SPEAKER_01] Which is the mechanism that stops one single employee from uploading three terabytes of video files to their drafts folder and crashing the entire server's hard drive for everyone else.

[SPEAKER_00] meticulous resource management.

[SPEAKER_00] You have to have it.

[SPEAKER_01] So we have an impenetrable vault, and we have all these different tellers speaking a dozen different languages to accommodate any device on the planet.

[SPEAKER_01] But opening the doors to all those different protocols introduces a massive vulnerability, right?

[SPEAKER_00] Definitely.

[SPEAKER_01] If you have all these open doors, you need a bulletproof way to verify people's identities.

[SPEAKER_01] And you need to filter out the malicious actors trying to slip through.

[SPEAKER_00] Security and filtering are absolutely paramount.

[SPEAKER_00] You cannot run an enterprise mail server without them.

[SPEAKER_01] Here's where it gets really interesting.

[SPEAKER_01] Because Cyrus doesn't just hard-code a password checker and call it a day, it uses layers.

[SPEAKER_00] Let's talk about the authentication side first.

[SPEAKER_01] Yeah, the documentation leans heavily on something called Cyrus SASL.

[SPEAKER_00] SASL stands for Simple Authentication and Security Layer.

[SPEAKER_00] It is a specification that describes how authentication mechanisms can be dynamically plugged into an application protocol.

[SPEAKER_01] That was a concept that I had to chew on for a minute.

[SPEAKER_01] The analogy I landed on to understand this is to think of Cyrus SASL like a universal modular smart lock on a physical door.

[SPEAKER_00] OK, I like where this is going.

[SPEAKER_01] Let's say you build an incredibly expensive heavy oak dual that represents your core email server.

[SPEAKER_01] Originally, 20 years ago, you just put a standard metal keyhole in it, but security standards evolve.

[SPEAKER_01] A few years later, your company mandates fingerprint scanners.

[SPEAKER_01] A few years after that, you need two-factor authentication with an app.

[SPEAKER_00] And if the locking mechanism was built directly into the wood of the door itself, you'd have to literally tear down and rebuild the entire door every single time you wanted to upgrade the security standard.

[SPEAKER_01] Precisely.

[SPEAKER_01] But Cyrus SASL is like a modular universal slot carved into the door.

[SPEAKER_01] It completely separates the door from the lock.

[SPEAKER_00] That makes perfect sense.

[SPEAKER_01] It lets developers just slide the new fingerprint scanner or the new biometric system right into the existing framework.

[SPEAKER_01] You don't have to rewrite the core code of the massive email server itself.

[SPEAKER_01] You just plug the new authentication method into the SASL layer on the wire.

[SPEAKER_00] That is a brilliant way to conceptualize it.

[SPEAKER_00] It cleanly separates the how you prove who you are from the how you get your mail.

[SPEAKER_01] Yeah, exactly.

[SPEAKER_00] And because it's so effective, Cyrus SSL is actually a generic implementation used by a ton of different open source projects, not just Cyrus IMAP.

[SPEAKER_01] Oh, I didn't realize that.

[SPEAKER_00] The current stable version of ASL is 2.1.28 and it gives administrators a massive amount of flexibility to meet modern compliance standards without breaking older clients.

[SPEAKER_01] Okay, so SSL is the bouncer at the door making sure you are who you say you are.

[SPEAKER_01] But what about the mail itself?

[SPEAKER_01] How does Cyrus keep the actual junk out?

[SPEAKER_01] Because a perfectly secure mailbox is still completely useless if it's flooded with thousands of spam messages and phishing links every day.

[SPEAKER_00] It's just a secure garbage can at that point.

[SPEAKER_00] So for the filtering aspect, Cyrus utilizes a specialized mail filtering language called Civ.

[SPEAKER_01] Now, I don't want to just compare this to a kitchen pasta strainer because it seems much smarter than that.

[SPEAKER_01] How does Civ actually function?

[SPEAKER_00] It's best to think of Civ as a highly trained, incredibly fast mailroom sorting clerk who works inside the vault.

[SPEAKER_00] Civ is a scripting language.

[SPEAKER_00] It allows an administrator, or even an end user, to write custom if-then rules that act on an email the moment it arrives before it ever reaches the actual inbox.

[SPEAKER_01] Oh, that's powerful.

[SPEAKER_01] So you could write a script that tells the clerk, if an email has the word invoice in the subject line and it comes from this specific vendor's domain, automatically file it into the accounting folder.

[SPEAKER_00] Exactly.

[SPEAKER_01] But if it contains an executable attachment, throw it directly into the incinerator.

[SPEAKER_00] Yes.

[SPEAKER_00] It executes those complex routing decisions on the server side instantly.

[SPEAKER_00] And on top of that internal sorting, Cyrus integrates seamlessly with third-party antivirus toolkits to scan every payload.

[SPEAKER_01] And it also has to handle deliverability, which is a huge issue for businesses.

[SPEAKER_01] Things like SPF, DKIM, and DMR.

[SPEAKER_01] I know those are intimidating acronyms, but we need to break them down because anyone who has ever sent a critical contract only to have the client say, I never got it, needs to know about these.

[SPEAKER_00] They really are the backbone of modern email trust.

[SPEAKER_00] SBF, DKMM, and DMRs are essentially cryptographic signatures and DNS records.

[SPEAKER_00] They prove to the rest of the internet that an email claiming to be from your company actually originated from your authorized server and not a scammer spoofing your address.

[SPEAKER_01] Let me try to translate those three for the non-developers listening.

[SPEAKER_01] Think of SBF as a guest list at the door of a club.

[SPEAKER_01] It's a public record that says, only these specific IP addresses are allowed to send mail on behalf of my domain.

[SPEAKER_00] A perfect analogy.

[SPEAKER_00] And DKIM.

[SPEAKER_01] Geekium is like a complex wax seal stamped onto the envelope of the email itself.

[SPEAKER_01] It proves that the contents of the message weren't tampered with or altered while it was traveling across the internet.

[SPEAKER_00] Right, and then DMRC ties them together.

[SPEAKER_01] Exactly.

[SPEAKER_01] DHARS is the set of strict instructions you give to the receiving bouncer.

[SPEAKER_01] It says, if an email shows up claiming to be from me, but it's not on the SBF guest list, and the DKIM rack seal is broken, here is exactly what you should do with it, reject it entirely, or send it straight to spam.

[SPEAKER_00] This raises an important question, though.

[SPEAKER_00] When you combine CIV for internal scripting, SASL for module authentication, and robust support for external trust standards like DIA, you realize this is not a simple plug-and-play toy.

[SPEAKER_01] No, it sounds like the administrator has an absolute cockpit of levers to pull.

[SPEAKER_00] they do, and that is the overarching philosophy of this architecture.

[SPEAKER_00] You have total granular control over exactly who gets into the system and exactly what kind of data is permitted to reach that sealed database.

[SPEAKER_00] It's just a tightly controlled environment built for scale.

[SPEAKER_01] Okay, so we've covered the conceptual groundwork.

[SPEAKER_01] We know it's a sealed vault, we know how the tellers deliver the mail, and we know how SA, Cell, and Civ keep the whole operation secure.

[SPEAKER_01] For you, the listener, who might be tired of paying massive subscription fees and is newly inspired to actually try this out, how do you get your hands on it without drowning in technical manuals?

[SPEAKER_01] Because looking at the source code breakdown, Cyrus is written primarily in C, about 64% of the code base, and Pearl makes up about 31%.

[SPEAKER_00] Yes, which reflects its legacy stretching back to 1993.

[SPEAKER_00] C and Pearl were the absolute workhorses of backend infrastructure at the time.

[SPEAKER_00] They are incredibly fast, memory efficient, and rock solid.

[SPEAKER_01] I get that they are reliable, but if I'm a beginner or a junior IT admin, hearing written in C sounds terrifying.

[SPEAKER_00] I can see that.

[SPEAKER_01] It sounds like I'm going to have to spend a week typing arcane commands into a dark terminal just to get the server to turn on.

[SPEAKER_00] It doesn't have to be that way at all.

[SPEAKER_00] The documentation outlined three main ways to get the Cyrus software.

[SPEAKER_00] The first option is pulling the raw Git source.

[SPEAKER_00] You pull the bleeding edge unreleased code directly from the developer's repository.

[SPEAKER_01] But the documentation specifically warns that doing that requires building a lot of dependencies yourself.

[SPEAKER_00] It does.

[SPEAKER_00] If you pull from Git, you have to manually build the main software dependencies.

[SPEAKER_00] For example, they highly recommend using their custom fork of a search engine called Zapien.

[SPEAKER_00] They modified Zapien to include specific features like advanced word boundary analysis for searching through Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text.

[SPEAKER_01] Wow.

[SPEAKER_01] Okay.

[SPEAKER_00] Yeah.

[SPEAKER_00] So if you don't build that custom fork, you lose those powerful search features.

[SPEAKER_01] Let me jump in and translate building dependencies for the non-programmers listening.

[SPEAKER_01] That basically means having to manually gather, compile, and assemble all the underlying software components yourself before you can even install the main program, right?

[SPEAKER_00] Exactly.

[SPEAKER_01] It's like buying a high-performance car, but when it arrives, you have to build the engine from scratch before you can drive it.

[SPEAKER_00] That's exactly what it is, which is why the Git route is strictly for developers or power users who need to test unreleased patches.

[SPEAKER_01] OK, so if I'm a beginner, what is my actual starting line?

[SPEAKER_00] The second option is the release source Tarbles.

[SPEAKER_01] Tarbles, another great piece of jargon.

[SPEAKER_01] That's essentially just a compressed folder, like a .zip file, right?

[SPEAKER_00] Yes, a compressed archive.

[SPEAKER_00] The Cyrus team highly recommends these for most users who want to compile from source.

[SPEAKER_00] They are heavily tested, definitively tagged to a stable release version, and importantly, all the documentation is already pre-built for you in an HTML folder inside the archive.

[SPEAKER_00] The current stable release series is version 3.12, specifically 3.12.1.

[SPEAKER_01] But there is a third option, right?

[SPEAKER_01] Because even downloading a tarball and compiling it can be intimidating for a true beginner.

[SPEAKER_00] There is a third option.

[SPEAKER_00] And for a beginner, it is by far the most accessible.

[SPEAKER_00] Operating system distribution packages.

[SPEAKER_01] Yes, the magic of package managers.

[SPEAKER_01] You don't have to compile a single line of C code if you don't want to.

[SPEAKER_00] Exactly.

[SPEAKER_00] Cyrus iMac is so ubiquitous and trusted that it ships directly within the repositories of almost every major Linux distribution.

[SPEAKER_00] Fedora, Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenCSE.

[SPEAKER_00] It's already there waiting for you.

[SPEAKER_01] So instead of building an engine from scratch, you just open your server terminal and type a single command, like apt-get install cyrus-mapt-on-abuntu, and the operating system just reaches out, downloads the pre-compiled software, and installs it for you.

[SPEAKER_00] It handles the heavy lifting.

[SPEAKER_00] Now, as a caveat, the documentation does warn that the Cyrus team doesn't directly maintain those OS packages themselves.

[SPEAKER_01] Right.

[SPEAKER_00] So sometimes a specific Linux distribution might be slightly out of date compared to the absolute latest tarball release on the website.

[SPEAKER_00] But for learning the ropes and getting a test server running in five minutes, it is undeniably the best entry point.

[SPEAKER_01] And once that single command finishes running, where should our beginner look first to actually configure it?

[SPEAKER_00] Go straight to the quick start guide in the official documentation at cyrusonmap.org.

[SPEAKER_00] It walks you step by step through setting up the required user accounts, configuring that modular SSL authentication we discussed, and launching the service safely.

[SPEAKER_00] It is incredibly thorough and designed to prevent you from making early mistakes.

[SPEAKER_01] So what does this all mean?

[SPEAKER_01] We've journeyed from a sealed vault concept, born in the early internet of 1993, explored the modular smart locks and mailroom clerks that keep our data pristine, all the way to installing an enterprise-grade server with a single command.

[SPEAKER_01] But I want to leave you with a final thought to mull over.

[SPEAKER_00] And it really connects back to the scenario we opened with today.

[SPEAKER_01] It does.

[SPEAKER_01] Consider for a moment just how much of your personal and professional life is locked up in emails, in contacts, and in calendar appointments.

[SPEAKER_00] It's basically everything.

[SPEAKER_01] Every vendor negotiation, every sensitive HR decision, every strategic pivot your company has ever made.

[SPEAKER_01] When we rely entirely on closed, proprietary ecosystems to house that data, we have to ask ourselves,

[SPEAKER_01] who really holds the keys to our digital history.

[SPEAKER_00] It's a massive vulnerability.

[SPEAKER_00] And unfortunately, organizations often don't realize how trapped they are until the vendor suddenly changes their terms of service, experiences a massive breach, or dramatically raises their subscription prices overnight.

[SPEAKER_01] Exploring open source tools like Cyrus IMAP isn't just a technical IT decision about which software processes data the fastest.

[SPEAKER_01] It is fundamentally a strategic step toward reclaiming ownership of your most vital communication data.

[SPEAKER_01] It's about ensuring that the vault holding your organization's history belongs to you and only you.

[SPEAKER_00] Which is exactly the philosophy that drives organizations to seek out partners like Safe Server in the first place.

[SPEAKER_01] It's the perfect full circle.

[SPEAKER_01] If this deep dive has sparked a realization that your organization, whether it's a growing business, a nonprofit association, or any group handling sensitive information needs to reclaim its digital sovereignty, that is exactly what SafeServer facilitates.

[SPEAKER_00] They understand that making the leap away from massive proprietary vendors to open source solutions is about securing that maximum data sovereignty, keeping compliance airtight, while simultaneously achieving a major long-term reduction in software costs.

[SPEAKER_01] And the best part is you do not have to figure out how to compile C code or write SIF scripts alone.

[SPEAKER_01] Whether the right fit for your organization is Cyrus IMAP or a comparable open source alternative, Safe Server can be commissioned for consulting to help you make the right strategic choice for your specific needs.

[SPEAKER_00] Yeah, you aren't doing it in the dark.

[SPEAKER_01] Exactly.

[SPEAKER_01] And they will host it securely for you on German servers.

[SPEAKER_01] You can find all the details and start taking your infrastructure back at safeserver.de.

[SPEAKER_00] It really is about taking the power back.

[SPEAKER_01] Absolutely remember that bank vault.

[SPEAKER_01] Make sure you are the one who actually owns the bank.

[SPEAKER_01] Thanks for joining us on this deep dive into the hidden architecture of the inbox.

[SPEAKER_01] Keep asking questions, keep exploring, and we'll catch you next time.