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Please see the EOF project (eof.sourceforge.net), which already has 
in-freenet e-mail (sorta) running.

On Wednesday 30 May 2001 13:20, Yuan P Li said:
> Hi,
>
> See if this is in the right direction:
>
> An important part of the internet is email as you know.
> How can email take advantage of freenet? I think the
> in-freenet key index machanism is a great start.
> (This occurs to me because we cannot send email to
> friends in China - if the message contains words
> like "freenet".)
>
> Suppose I run a node for in-freenet key index, and I setup
> user1@myindex
> user2@myindex
> etc.
>
> This is almost like email.
> Everyone can insert files or keys to user1@myindex.
> User1 can ckeck user1@myindex regularly.
> The problem now is that everyone can access the information.
>
> Can we go a step futher:
>
> Suppose we have a freenet engine that allows everyone
> to register addresses like "user1@myindex". But we have to
> make a new machanism so that it requires a private key
> to decode the information from user1@myindex and only
> the person registered it has the private key.
>
> Of course we can ask everyone to use PGP to identify
> themselves, but that is too complicated to be practical.
>
> The next step is to make it more user friendly, such
> as a "freenet-pop3 proxy".
>
> Regards,
> Yuan
>
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