Speaking of all this mail stuff, I have just had an evil plan,
and am curious if it's been implemented before..
Has anyone actually implemented a distributed email system based
on NNTP? Not like the simple email to nntp gateways, but something
far more featureful. This would work as follows:
E
Ben Buxton wrote:
It sounds a great idea, especially having all my mail documentation
resources at work for immediate research.
> What would be the limitations/weaknesses/etc that would make
> this a bad idea?
Security - how secure is nntp protocol? With some messages it doesn't
matter about
Terry Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing:
> Ben Buxton wrote:
>
> It sounds a great idea, especially having all my mail documentation
> resources at work for immediate research.
>
>
> > What would be the limitations/weaknesses/etc that would make
> > this a bad idea?
>
>
You should really look into imap and isync. Isync is a good concept but
practically has problems. I thought maybe we need an rsync that
understands mbox/Maildir format. However, evolution is looking good in
this respect, I don't know if other IMAP emailers keep local copies of
the folders but the
At 06:46 16/05/2002, Ben Buxton sent this up the stick:
> > If this can include an encryption/pgp hook, this may reduce/remove the
> > problem in both transmission interception and who reads it.
>
>If you're worried about that, then perhaps IPSec might do
>the trick. But I'm guessing the NNTP ser
Rob B wrote:
> Spose you could also use stunnel for this.
Yeah, that's what I thought. And a little googling
reveals that that is what people do.
There is a port for nntp over ssl: 563.
-Matt
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