Email hosting over NNCP (salsa.debian.org)
from ikidd@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 06 Apr 02:59
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N0x0n@lemmy.ml on 06 Apr 05:23 next collapse

Really cool stuff !! Something I need to try out for sure !

Just to bad they didn’t add a multiuser setup example :( !

If you are doing any kind of multiuser mail node, you should have a separate SMTP system in front of this one that performs any necessary validation.

ikidd@lemmy.world on 06 Apr 19:58 collapse

I’m trying to figure out how to add it to Mailcow Dockerized and hook the existing containers. If I sort it out, I’ll probably PR it to Mailcow. I think it would a nice addition to start to build out a network that isn’t susceptible to the same spam attacks as regular email (yet).

rowanthorpe@lemmy.ml on 06 Apr 07:44 next collapse

I hadn’t even heard of the underlying protocol NNCP yet, and it seems to solve out of the box several things I was trying to do in some of my own hobby-projects. I’d been battling with automating and integrating Tor/I2P, Openssl, Tox, GPG, Wireguard, etc. If NNCP lives up to the hype it will be a big shortcut, when I next get time to work on stuff :-)

MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Apr 08:47 next collapse

I wonder how hard and if feasible at all it would be to have something like an email over NNCP over meshtastic network. Total independence and resilience.

mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud on 06 Apr 09:08 collapse

you could do that, set the use NNCPNET_NO_NODELIST to 1.

Then your into private node salsa.debian.org/jgoerzen/…/configuration#adding-…

MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Apr 09:13 collapse

Ooh, that’s interesting. But I assume there is nothing stopping me from using both quux AND alternative routes to nodes (via meshtastic for instance) at the same time? I don’t have to go fully one way or another?

mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud on 06 Apr 15:20 collapse

yeah, I think so. So nodes are over meshtastic and some are over quux

mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud on 06 Apr 09:10 collapse

I didnt know of NNCP either, it looks amazing and super simple to setup. might have to look at how I run a NNCP forwarder to Gmail

ikidd@lemmy.world on 06 Apr 15:13 collapse

I remember as a kid I set up one of the first private Echomail nodes as part of my RBBS bulletin board. UUCP was a big part of that, as I was the hop for other nodes coming onboard in my area. I added another half-dozen modems eventually just to handle the email traffic, then had to offload it to a university because I didn’t want to have to charge for the traffic and it was getting too big to handle. But it was pretty interesting at the time.