On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:29 PM, paxcoder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paxcoder@gmail.com">paxcoder@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">On 09/02/2010 11:21 PM, Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson wrote:
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Nobody replied yet on the possibility of alternative SMTP servers at
friends'. Does this mean it can't be done?</blockquote>
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How, who's keeping DNS record after you go off-line? Or am I missing
something?<br></div></blockquote><div><br>Generally people seem to be assuming a dynamic DNS provider will be used in conjunction with these boxes, I am pretty sure at least some of them will manage MX records for you as well. Maybe even dynamically, which will let the box do the work. <br>
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<div> but every additional thing which has to be configured and
understood by the owners of the Boxes makes them less useful to the
average person. Making this happen automagically would be possible, but
might actually be a terrible idea:<br>
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I personally think I might *prefer* that a complete stranger relayed my
clear-text, unencrypted e-mail, than someone I know.<br>
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See, I never thought about this e-mail *not* being encrypted.
Unencrypted private mail is a bad idea anyway, but they didn't have PGP
when they thought of a POP server. </div></blockquote><div><br>Unencrypted e-mail isn't going away any time soon - possibly never. Even if the freedom box makes it easy to have all your outgoing mail encrypted, that doesn't really matter much because not everyone you communicate with will have a freedom box until sometime in the very distant future, if ever.<br>
<br>For something like a freedom box, which is almost-always online, I don't really think a secondary MX is going to be necessary. The mail can just sit on the outgoing server until your box becomes available again.<br clear="all">
</div></div><br>-- <br>Bjarni R. Einarsson<br><br><a href="http://beanstalks-project.net/">http://beanstalks-project.net/</a><br><a href="http://bre.klaki.net/">http://bre.klaki.net/</a><br>