On 2012-11-16 at 14:22:07 +0000, Michael Rogers wrote: > > Your IMAP server should be on your FBX. > Yes, in an ideal world we'd all run our own mail servers. In the real > world it's not possible to run a mail server on a home broadband > connection,
actually, you *can* run an *IMAP* server at home, it's the *SMTP* part that is problematic. Actually, if your home connection has a public IP, you can use some kind of dynamic DNS provider, and you have a friend with a computer that can act as a backup MX, you should be also able to run a receiving SMTP server, the real problem is that mail *sent* from home connections isn't accepted by most SMTP servers around the world, because of spam blacklists. Even if you decide to use somebody else's service for email, it is perfectly feasible to download it to an home server via POP3/IMAP, delete it immediately from the 3rd party provider and serve it via IMAP to the local network, or to a locally running webmail. Of course it is not a solution against illicit eavesdropping, but it will mean that you won't have mail that is older than 180 days, or younger, but read on a 3rd party service that can be easily subpoenad. Mostly, it will put the survival of your email archive in your hands, rather than keeping it under the goodwill of some provider that could decide to stop offering its services. -- Elena ``of Valhalla'' _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
