Jim Capozzoli wrote: > I know this isn't related to FreeBSD at all, but I wanted to see what > other people thought about this. What if google set up a mechanism > where emails are shared between user accounts? Like, suppose this > email is submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED], right, and the gmail mail > server sees who is all getting mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then, it > has only one copy of the message on the server, and points everybody's > account who is supposed to have this message to that one copy on the > server. Despite it seems like they have unlimited space this could > probably seem useful to them anyway. :-P > > Is this a good idea or am I just insane? Btw I can't find the spot in > google's support area to submit my idea so that's half the reason I > sent it here incase anybody who works at google also happens to be > subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] xD >
If you set up your own server with Cyrus IMAPd (possibly others) this
is standard functionality -- you can easily create a shared namespace
for mailboxes or make news groups appear via IMAP.
Cheers,
Matthew
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