Originally posted at ShopCanadianStuff.ca/blog which has no affiliation to NorthMail.ca
I noticed NorthMail.ca which I had previously only know for being a Canadian hosted and owned free webmail provider was now listing Video Calls and an office suite as features.
Oddly enough Northmail was featured in a recent monologue joke on Late Night with Seth Meyers. You can see the joke on TikTok here or at 7:15 on this YouTube video of the show.
I tried out the video calling and it works pretty well though it is not obvious how to do it.
I made a brief guide on how to use the video calling feature in this blog post at ShopCanadianStuff.ca/blog
NorthMail.ca has many other features, a calendar, file and photo storage, dark mode and other theme customization. Language settings allow for both English and French as well as many other languages.
The paid premium version of NorthMail.ca provides 100 GB of storage (1GB for free version), no ads, and promises a faster smoother experience for $0.99/month.
If you sign up soon you can get a pretty good pick of the available email addresses so you don’t have to go with something as long a BuyCanadianElbowsUp_1867@NorthMail.ca unless you want something that long.
If anyone is concerned about if Northmail.ca is actually Canadian, the owners name is listed on their website, I checked their linked in page which lists the same person as their CIRA domain registration.
To find more Canada made products and services check out ShopCanadianStuff.ca
Ah, using Nextcloud, huh. Neat!
Damn, I think I’m gonna have to try this out. After my experience with Nubo I discovered using Nextcloud ain’t that bad.
(I tried deploying Nextcloud with the AIO image for like 1 hour and quickly noped out of that situation. I’m down to pay someone else to deal with that mess.)
I host my own Nextcloud on my LAN and VPN in when I am away.
Nice. Hosting on a LAN+VPN is probably what I would do next time. I tried deploying on a public cloud with 2GB of memory and I started receiving memory usage alerts almost immediately on an empty instance with everything disabled, except image previews. I didn’t want to rent an even more expensive instance. I bet it runs great with a ton of memory and CPU.
I have a pi 5 running NextCloud, Pihole, and a few other services. I have a pi 4 running Wireguard and backing up my pi5. Then I have another pi 5 that is running an other instance of pihole and it will become my iPhone and iPad backup server in the next few days. I used to pay for apple services so now I need to find a way to backup my devices so I can stop paying even the $1 something.
I am thinking I should move transmission and some other things to the other pi5 instead of the NextCloud pi5.
How do you go about installing multiple things on the pi? When I built my pihole I don’t think it partitioned anything or whatever…?
I used whatever installer thing the pihole page had on it (but I did it a while ago), and if you can’t tell I’m not super techie, just enough to usually do what I need with guidance.
I’m probably dramatically misunderstanding what the setup entailed…
I recommend Yunohost https://doc.yunohost.org/admin/install/install_on/raspberry_pi
Point and click on an admin page to install from a big list of apps. It warns you if a particular app might use a lot of memory.
I run pihole on the raspberry pi, like an app it takes up port 8080 (I think it is on both my pi’s). I use different ports for different applications like 8087 for my NextCloud.
I signed up! They’re running Nextcloud 30.0.8.1.
I mean, it does what it says on the tin. Compared to Nubo’s Nextcloud deployment, NorthMail is running a newer version, they accept credit card payments, and it seems to run faster.
They don’t have Nextcloud Tasks enabled though… 😭