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dmonkey18654yI'd like to join. As notAnkur said, what are the prerequisites? I know Python pretty well, but I never studied smtp protocol
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apt-get1344yYeah I'd love to help, i know python, javascript, sqlite and C++ pretty well but i have never learned anything about smtp protocol. As mentioned by others: what are the prerequisites for helping out?
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@notAnkur @xzvf @dmonkey @apt-get @dashy2004
Don't work about smtp, it's quite easy, you literally can telnet into an smtp server then send something like this:
helo localhost
Mail From: user@domain.com
Rcpt To: me@domain.com
Subject: hello
Body:
Hi. How are you?
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And, that's an email.
Anyways, you just have to know some python. It would be helpful if someone knew how to work with cron jobs. But that's not necessary.
I am about to fill in the readme a bit more and make a basic pseudo code file. Then I will invite you guys to the project.
What are your githubs? -
dmonkey18654y@ewpratten for cron job do you mean setting some cron tasks? If so, it seems pretty simple, I don't know if there's something else to know except for the settings into the file.
Anyway, my github username is Erodes -
Sounds like that project is likely to attract spammers, and that would land the sending servers on spam blacklists quickly.
How to counter that? -
@Fast-Nop make a new email address. I don't really care about blacklisting, because it's so easy to swap out an account.
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@linuxxx
I saw that you are setting up a mail server. If it supports smtp, can I host an instance of this with an address on your server? -
Alright, I got the base code to work. I will push it to GitHub so you guys can add stuff.
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@ewpratten the server itself would be blacklisted, not individual spamming email addresses. That's why open relays aren't in use anymore.
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@Fast-Nop ah. Well. I doubt that's going to happen to Gmail. Also, smtp allows me to just change my email address if I really needed.
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@Mathtauathogen sure! Feel free to contribute with a full request! Or host your own relay.
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@Mathtauathogen I just added instructions on hosting your own address to the README
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@M1sf3t yep. Remail exsists and I have an instance running.
There are still some bugs tho. Due to formatting, non-google users can only receive. Not send mail..
REmail - A semi-anonymous, decentralized email relay service
REmail - A semi-anonymous, decentralized email relay service