On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:49:03PM NZST, CF wrote: :On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 09:59, Carl Cerecke wrote: : :> If a bunch of us joined together, it would be fairly cheap, no? Is it a :> wise use of CLUG funds to set something like this up and charge, say, :> $1/month ? (We're not exactly scraping the bottom of the barrel ATM). : :Reasonable - it would be an excellent MTA-learning opportunity for :someone. The questions that come straight to mind are: : what response time would you expect from the mail server? : same question for bandwidth to the mail server. : Privacy of your email - do you trust the mailserver? : Shell accounts? :Anything else? : :Users would be wanting pop3 / imap / webmail access to their mail, and :what else?
procmail, or whatever sorting/filtering/mangling people prefer. This would be especially handy for dialup users. It could mean saving a fair bit of download time, I'd imagine. What I would look for is SSL enabled imap for message retreival and to be able to shuttle messages through smtp, which can also be wrapped with SSL. Webmail would be handy at times, too. GPG becomes a problem with webmail, however. It forces you to put trust into the webserver. I would be hesitant to go that way. I just wouldn't sign/encrypt anything over webmail. However, with the imap/smtp options, all secure processing can be done at a controlled endpoint. Random thoughts. Kinda uncollected at this point. Greg --- -
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