Issues

How to be compatible with pop3, imap and smtp protocols ?

• Non distributed (Postfix?) gateways that encrypt (or not) exhanged emails and forward them to DEFMS.

  • email going through a defms-gateway will never know what a hard drive is.

How to distribute Mailbox in a secure and scalable way?

• [?] orbit-db is a distributed database over ipfs,

  • can’t be unique bc not scalable

  • having one database per every thread or mailing list shared accros relevent stakeholders may be to explore

  • https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db/blob/master/examples/keyvalue.js

• [?] ipfs api now propose pub/sub functions that can be usefull

  • more dev

  • https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db-pubsub

How to manage if an email is encrypted or not ?

• what kind of emails should be public:

  • public mailing lists

  • opensource development notification emails

  • newsLetters

• what kind of emails should be encrypted ?

  • all personal communication

  • all mails from legacy email system not mentioned above

  • everything else

• [?] defms would understand a ‘backward compatibility metadata’ to actively prevent encryption. (otherwise all email from legacy will be encrypted by the gateway)

• [?]

Migration

• • configure getmail to retreive other accounts

  • read from defms

  • eventually configure auto-delete on original mailbox