Dnia 25.11.2024 o godz. 04:04:13 Dave Crocker via mailop pisze: > This thread has touched on several topic that seem unrelated.
IMHO, the problem has not been clearly stated from the very beginning. In the first email of previous related thread, the OP is saying that "I've been thinking of migrating our mail infrastructure to a virtual server, running in the Web3 IPFS cloud - without having a physical IP address attached to it." This statement already brings up several issues. While it is quite clear what IPFS is - it's just a distributed file storage mechanism - it's not clear what "Web3 IPFS cloud" would be. Use of the term "cloud" suggests some computing infrastructure built around IPFS (as storage backend probably?) that can provide computing power. I'm not aware of existence of any such infrastructure. But if it exists, and you can run virtual servers on it, and these virtual servers are able to use IPFS as storage, then it's just an internal implementation detail. From outside, such mail server would look like a regular mail server, but instead of storing messages in the internal file system, it would store them on the IPFS. Nobody sending or receiving mail from such a server would need to know it, as it's a detail internal to that server. For the outsiders, it's just a regular mail server. Which means, it obviously has to have an IP address. As others have stated, I can't imagine how you can ever run a mail server without having an IP address. What is more unclear to me, is why the OP wants to store messages in the IPFS. What advantages does it have over storing them in a regular storage? What does the OP want to do with these messages that would be facilitated by having them in IPFS? If it should be just a proof of concept that it can be done, then of course, go on and do it, but without more information, it seems as useful to me as the famous experiment with TCP/IP connection with bongo drums used as the physical layer [1]. Of course, it demonstrates that it is possible and can be done, but I see no use for it. [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20130724230518/http://eagle.auc.ca/~dreid/ -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa r...@rafa.eu.org -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub." _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
