On Sun, Apr 27, 2008, Uri wrote about "Re: [0-0-0-0-1-2-3-] my idea of speedy communication....": > my idea of speedy communication is this: instead of one e-mail address > with one supplier, we will have a strict alias in our language, all > our friends will know us this way, and then we can have even 50 (or 2, > or 3, or 500) e-mail addresses; they will all lead to the same person, > and when people try to locate us - they willl not depend on one e-mail > supplier. for example if I want to stop using Google, and you send me > email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], then my public table will redirect > this messages to you - without asking Google. It's like the old domain
What you're describing is basically straightforward mail forwarding! I mean, you can create a domain, say, reallyfreemail.com, with 20 mail exchangers (MX entries) listed in the DNS, using 20 machines around the world that volunteered to help you, with simple software that syncs the same forward list to all these 20 machines. A mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will arrive (randomly) to one of these 20 machines, and from there be forwarded to your real email. It would have been even nicer if instead of having to deal with the entire email, the mail server could just return a redirect with the new address (a la the HTTP 302 response), but alas, this does not exist in SMTP. So you either have forwarding, or if you don't like that, another option is to do third-level domains. For example, your email will be [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the DNS will return Google's mail exchange as the mail exchange for uri.reallyfreemail.com, so people will send your mail directly to Google. The problem with this technique is that 1. your address becomes a bit ugly, and 2. many anti-spam software will not like to see this sort of "misaddress" mail (Google won't understand why mail to @uri.reallyfreemail.com is being sent to them). > BUT, nobody should rely on one service provider. actually e-mail > addresses willl work like IP addresses - you can connect from any IP > address and read your mail. So, I am looking for people who want to It seems you're describing a system where you can change your mail hoster *after* the mail has already arrived. I don't see how this could ever happen without cooperation between mail hosters (which you don't trust in the first place). -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Apr 27 2008, 22 Nisan 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Time is the best teacher. Unfortunately http://nadav.harel.org.il |it kills all its students. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
