On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 07:00:19PM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > On Monday 08 May 2006 17:38, Caco Patane wrote: > > > Why won't you simply use Frost ? Just make a channel to serve as your > > > > Because Frost is a message board and Freemail an e-mail implementation? > > Actually he has a point. Yes Frost is a message board, but that does not > mean the methods > and protocals it uses are not usefull for freemail. The original suggestion > here was use a private > channel for a users inbox. This probably could be done using a subset of the > frost code without > any sort of gui - just a smtp and pop server. Image you start Freemail. It > generates an address for > you to tell friends about and tells your to save a private key. You > configure your email client to talk > to local host and the freemail address. The private key becomes your pop and > smtp password.
Freemail can have some level of co-operation with Frost but fundamentally Frost and e-mail work differently. > > Ed -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20060509/0fa4530b/attachment.pgp>
