This article is misleading for sure and misses the point a lot. However, an Open Source Alternative to this implies that you will host it yourself somewhere so you provide the cloud.
If you setup a mail server and then one of these clients then you don't have to install anything locally and install you just use the web versions of these clients.
Mail Server + Rainloop on a public facing server = your personal email cloud.
This article skips the Mail Server part which is easily the most important thing and that is unfortunate. You can't connect Rainloop to a server that doesn't exist. This was not a very well thought out article.
This article is misleading for sure and misses the point a lot. However, an Open Source Alternative to this implies that you will host it yourself somewhere so you provide the cloud.
If you setup a mail server and then one of these clients then you don't have to install anything locally and install you just use the web versions of these clients.
Mail Server + Rainloop on a public facing server = your personal email cloud.
This article skips the Mail Server part which is easily the most important thing and that is unfortunate. You can't connect Rainloop to a server that doesn't exist. This was not a very well thought out article.