On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:54 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> wrote: > As pointed out before, email is a can of worms easier avoided than > handled properly. Because "properly" means more than the classic > "reliably" and "without too much spam": FreedomBox "properly" includes > "free from maintenance" and "privacy-aware" and "low resource". > > How to limit spam on low-resource hardware without leaking privacy by > use of external spam filters external smtp hosting? > > Only way I see is to limit smtp to trusted peers - which means not > really standard internet email but custom FreedomBox-mail, as we need > some custom mechanism to resolve who are friends _and_ tighten smtp > setup to only communicate directly and securely with those friends. > > > - Jonas
Jonas, I concur with you here. Has anyone among this group tried to experiment with running existing email server/client software in a FreedomBox-to-FreedomBox network? (assuming most would have to connect across commercial ISP lines). One idea is that different configurations could be created that run automated sending and receiving of email from a collection of freedom boxes using existing software (such as Thunderbird for client, Postfix and Courier for server, for instance). People with FreedomBoxes could volunteer to run these scripts/configurations in the background, and data could be collected to see how well it actually holds up under various conditions (a manager of scripts could be created that randomly turns on and off participant box email servers). In fact (and maybe this has been discussed previously) automated testing could be a way to try and objectively evaluate many ideas, especially seeing how the FreedomBox project seems to have at least a criteria of: (quoted from above): > "reliably" and "without too much spam": FreedomBox "properly" includes > "free from maintenance" and "privacy-aware" and "low resource". One could automate on many of these factors: reliability, vulnerability to spam attacks, privacy, and resource usage Freedom from maint. seems like something that could be tackled once the basics are solved, IMHO. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
