[Freedombox-discuss] Email on the FreedomBox Discussion

[Eugen Leitl]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:14:41PM +0530, Abhishek Dasgupta wrote:
> On 26 August 2011 04:24, John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've been running web and mail servers out of my home for decades.
> > Power blackouts are infrequent here (in San Francisco), but if you
> > care, the vast majority of them can be handled with a small UPS
> > (uninterruptable power supply).
> 
> This is okay for people with static IPs. For most people, end point
> email on their FB is simply not an option because of dynamic IPs,

DynDNS-like DNS services (provided by FB cloud itself) would address
that.

> which may cause email to be delivered to an unknown computer if my
> server is down.

If you're down, somebody who inherited your IP is unlikely to run
a mail server, especially configured to accept all mail (unless malicious).
 
> Also, sending from dynamic IP addresses is nearly guaranteed to get
> one's mail blocked by ISPs or webmail providers.

If you deliver outside of FB you can use your ISP's relay services
fine. Obviously some FB nodes will be more privileged than others,
and could act as relay services to outside but this is guaranteed
to draw spammers. E.g. most of anonymous remailers' traffic is
spam and malware, so if FB will offer anonymity acceptance will
have to be lossy.

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