Helm is the personal email server you never knew you needed

Maybe Hillary Clinton had the right idea.

The idea of a personal email server may be forever associated with Clinton's infamous email woes, but the technology — which takes email out of the cloud services that most of us use and puts it into a physical drive in your home — is sound. There are a lot of advantages to running your own email server, privacy being the main one. But, to most, it just sounds like such a hassle.

Not so with Helm, a triangular-shaped email server that aims to make setting up a personal email server as easy as adding an Amazon Echo to your kitchen counter. With the Helm, your email is no longer floating in the cloud somewhere. Instead, it's physically in your home — still accessible from anywhere, but only by you and people whom you trust. Read more...