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Anyone else considered running Postfix from an android phone? Specifically incoming

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silverwizard
silverwizard  
See - people want Decentralized Social Networking - so let's try it with the most battle tested protocol first
christian mock
christian mock  
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whyyyyy?
silverwizard
silverwizard  
@christian mock All the people being like "I want to run my social network without servers" are annoying me so now I am considering how bad an idea being a monster would be

You could use dynamic DNS to set an MX record! Or a VPN tunnel!
@christian mock
christian mock
christian mock  
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I guess you even could run a medium-sized full postfix node on some android phone you pull out of the drawer, given what previous generations of hardware we ran stuff on.

Also, the best protocol for unstable connections is UUCP.
christian mock
christian mock  
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(although getting the UUCP map software to run on any OS from this millennium might be a big task)
silverwizard
silverwizard  
@christian mock I'm sure you could make it work - and I'm sure some retroputer enthusiast has done it
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silverwizard
silverwizard  
@christian mock Yeah - shove Postfix behind DynDNS and figure out getting it a public IP it can listen on sketchily - and bam you have a decentralized serverless email client.

Of course - this is kinda crap because you need to figure out listeners. Some sort of pubsub makes sense - but that's servers. So I don't know.
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Resuna
Resuna  
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For extra geek points use qmail.
silverwizard
silverwizard  
@Resuna Man - I've not used qmail in a decade and never want to again

I've been OpenSMTPd enlightened but I bet I can get postfix to do something stupid more easily
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Resuna
Resuna  
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About 5 years for me.

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