> I've shied away from POP because nobody wants to configure their mail
> client to retrieve messages from another server (localhost).
I was thinking it would be a POP proxy which would intercept messages for
the freenet domain (blanu@freenet) and send the rest to your normal POP
server. It does require some configuration, but let's you use fmail from
the same program as your email.
> What do you think of using SMTP to forward the messages to a specified
> mail account(s)? That should be even more flexible. But on the insert side
> I think I'll still watch a mail spool. Unless I reconsider, which I often
> do.
You lose anonymity if your mail goes through the Internet not through
Freenet. Ideally I'd like your Freenet mail to travel only through Freenet
and either 1) never touch your disk except in your DataStore or 2) be
stored in some kind of crafty way.
I actually implemented POP last night but for right now I'm just storing
your Freenet mail in a separate MH mailstore from your normal mail because
that's easy.
> > There's a list of subprojects in the DocManager on our sourceforge project
> > page. NNTP, SMTP, POP.
>
> Gaming: no way. Unless chess is banned. Well, always a chance.
It's just for fun. It's a demo on how to write Freenet apps for my Linux
Journal article. Anything actually useful would be too long and boring.
> Chat: no way. Not like IRC, too much lag.
Heh. Yeah, it's insane and will never work but I had to do it just for the
heck of it. I have a prototype of that working, actually. It's incredibly
slow when it's just me talking to myself with HTL 1 on my local node.
> DNS: How do you tell if www.freenetsite.org should be resolved through
> normal DNS or Freenet DNS?
That's easy. Just list both kinds in your DNS server list. Whichever is
first gets asked first.
> The NNTP stuff is interesting. Are you going to download and cache the
> day's latest messages in the background? That's the only way to do it
> IMHO. This sort of thing could very easily replace conventional usenet. We
> need to find volunteers with quality newsfeeds to regularly insert
> newsgroups. Sounds like a Slashdot hype mission to me. "Help us replace
> Usenet, now! (Free porn available.)"
Yeah. We actually already had this in python and a few people used it. It
worked really well.
> Hrmmm. I don't think users will configure their mail clients to use a
> special Freenet SMTP server to send email. But if they would bother it
> would be easy to filter email based on URI. How?
It would be a proxy to their normal SMTP server that intercepts freenet
addresses.
> What is the Freenet mail URI format again? Will mail clients mind using
> it? Will we have domains?
I've just been using @freenet. I don't see any need for domains although
maybe they could be useful. That seems complicated to me though.
> I very much want to see Usenet downloadable with Freenet. After that we
> can work on how to insert stuff with Freenet.
I'll work on NNTP today then.
We might want to move discussion to the eof-dev list.
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