Listening to all of the great answers to my questions about picking an email stack, I came to a realization:
No matter how much we improve various admin interfaces, no time soon are most people going to be competent to maintain an SMTP server on their box. I think that some freedomboxes have to be set-up to provide mail service for other freedombox users - but by default a freedombox doesn't. Freedomboxes naturally form packs where different members of the pack have different roles. People have to rely on other members of their trusted community for certain server features. I blogged light-heartedly about this: http://basiscraft.com/ :: "Stepdad Can't Hack Sendmail" and, at least partly, great minds think alike? :-) Anthony Papillion wrote http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2011-February/000664.html I'm not done yet thinking about some of the details proposed by Anthony but the core ideas - that freedombox users need ways to share domains, fat pipes, hard to admin services, etc..... I think will become very important as we go along. -t _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
