[Freedombox-discuss] email recommendations?

Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson bre at pagekite.net
Sat Feb 26 15:10:17 UTC 2011


On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Keith <keith at tahrir.co> wrote:

> Email between Freedom Boxes, not to the whole internet, could be done
> without using mail servers.
> Just create the email as a file and copy the email directly to the Maildir
> (or equivalent) of the other Freedom Box.


SMTP is just a protocol for doing that in a reliable way (gracefully
handling errors etc.). Re-inventing SMTP would probably be
counterproductive. :-)

But you are right that if FreedomBoxes can communicate directly, they could
be configured to send each other mail directly as well, thus bypassing some
of the ISP limitations.

-- 
Bjarni R. Einarsson
The Beanstalks Project ehf.

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