[Freedombox-discuss] Email Encryption Basics
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> From: Elena ``of Valhalla'' <elena.valhalla at gmail.com>
> To: freedombox-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org
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> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 11:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Email Encryption Basics
>
> On 2012-11-16 at 14:22:07 +0000, Michael Rogers wrote:
>> > Your IMAP server should be on your FBX.
>> Yes, in an ideal world we'd all run our own mail servers. In the real
>> world it's not possible to run a mail server on a home broadband
>> connection,
>
> actually, you *can* run an *IMAP* server at home, it's the *SMTP*
> part that is problematic.
>
> Actually, if your home connection has a public IP, you can
> use some kind of dynamic DNS provider, and you have a friend with
> a computer that can act as a backup MX, you should be also
> able to run a receiving SMTP server, the real problem is that
> mail *sent* from home connections isn't accepted by most SMTP
> servers around the world, because of spam blacklists.
>
> Even if you decide to use somebody else's service for email,
> it is perfectly feasible to download it to an home server
> via POP3/IMAP, delete it immediately from the 3rd party provider
> and serve it via IMAP to the local network, or to a locally running
> webmail.
>
> Of course it is not a solution against illicit eavesdropping, but
> it will mean that you won't have mail that is older than 180 days,
> or younger, but read on a 3rd party service that can be easily
> subpoenad.
> Mostly, it will put the survival of your email archive in your hands,
> rather than keeping it under the goodwill of some provider that
> could decide to stop offering its services.
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