On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Keith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keith@tahrir.co">keith@tahrir.co</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;">
Email between Freedom Boxes, not to the whole internet, could be done without using mail servers.<br>
Just create the email as a file and copy the email directly to the Maildir (or equivalent) of the other Freedom Box.</blockquote><div><br>SMTP is just a protocol for doing that in a reliable way (gracefully handling errors etc.). Re-inventing SMTP would probably be counterproductive. :-)<br>
<br>But you are right that if FreedomBoxes can communicate directly, they could be configured to send each other mail directly as well, thus bypassing some of the ISP limitations.<br><br></div></div>-- <br>Bjarni R. Einarsson<br>
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