[Dev] Existing p2p systems for getting offline node back up to date?

[S. Mike Dierken]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Snively" <psnively@earthlink.net>

> I disagree that we're expecting each user to have an account on an
> e-mail server; Chandler is supposed to be fully-functional in a
> serverless environment. One of the implications of this is P2P e-mail.
>
Why not have Chandler /be/ the SMTP server? All you need to deal with is the
Chandler node being offline.
Since SMTP requests can come from arbitrary sources, the client can't open a
connection to a server with pending messages and say "ready for requests" -
there are an innumerable set of nodes sending messages. Essentially, you
always will need an account with a store-and-forward intermediary, which
what e-mail is all about.