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Re: "Thoughts on the draft spec"
The spec doesn't go into how mail is stored and fetched, only the transmission. Servers and clients are pretty much free to invent.
If I eventually finish my implementation, the general idea is for a multi user system where the users all have shell accounts, as they would on a Pubnix. You log in and can view your mail with a simple pager or text editor. That provides a really sturdy fallback. On top of that, a webmail like system could eventually be built that serves your mailbox over Gemini using the same pubkey you use to send mail for access.
2023-09-25 · 4 months ago
Thoughts on the draft spec — Misfin is a nice idea, but I'm worried that it doesn't make sense to replace email with something lacking end-to-end encryption. A server on a multi-user system gets the plaintext of messages to its users. It's fine if you run the server on your own home server, but I guess that wouldn't be the typical configuration. I wonder if it would be feasible to work in a PGP-like mechanism using the same client key as in the client certificate... Some other little thoughts...