Open Source Applications Foundation

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

Ray Ryan Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:59:23 -0800


On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 07:19  AM, Paul Snively wrote:

> 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.

I've been banging the "no server no server" drum pretty hard, but I 
think P2P e-mail is a bit much to ask of Chandler. Of course it should 
still function if no SMTP and POP servers have been specified, 
including its P2P functions (chat, data sharing I hope), but I think 
it's reasonable for it to require an SMTP host to send mail, and a POP 
host to receive.

Ray