On 8/26/20 1:57 PM, Ashley Dixon wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 05:19:16PM +0000, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
hi. i request comments on this new mail protocol
which i plan to implement some day if things turn
out well. here is its zeroth draft:
https://github.com/al-caveman/hillarymail
I like what I see, so far.
Interesting proposal. A few non-technical questions:
Why the name "HillaryMail", and why does the logo contain a picture of Margaret
Thatcher? ;-)
More seriously, do you intend to write a reference implementation, or submit
this as a more formal R.F.C. in the event of it attracting more attention?
Nice idea. I suggest the R.P.4 so it can stay up 24/365.
Furthermore, accusing every SMTP/POP/IMAP user to be an "idiot" may not be the
best way of attaining support; I must admit, I have never seen that in an
initial protocol proposal.
I'll wear that moniker, as a follower and implementor and testor.....
I'm also slightly confused regarding the "goals" section. By "easy to
install/use", do you mean "easy" for the people implementing the protocol, or
the people making use of said implementations? "Traditional" SMTP mail clients
have always been pretty straight-forward for me, although the difficulty
involved in _implementing_ an M.T.A. is another story. I find this point rather
equivocal.
Whatever grant offers, surely I'll at least attempt to implement. email
services are getting hammered, from a traditional functional
perspective. I do not like what the big corps are doing and just want a
standards complint , reasonable secure solution. Is there something
better for me to follow than this offering from grant ?
From the private emails I have received, over the last month or so,
there is quite and interest in running your own (secure?) DNS and email
services....
Perhaps there is a solution for the R.P.4 for other linux distros I have
not found, yet? If so, I'd still want a gentoo centric solution.
hth,
James
