Harmon Seaver wrote:
if your using a linux box, you have your own sendmail server, so, of course, all linux boxes can send email peer-to-peer.
Or any other system. You can get smtp servers for windoze or anything else. Setting up peer-to-peer email between known hosts (even with windows on them) is well possible & there are loads of programs out there that do it already. The program described seems to be some sort of directory service - a sort of encrypted chat server that tells you if your friends are online right now. And of course holds your mail when they aren't. As you both need to be subscribers, I can't honestly see the difference between using it and using one of the many existing conferencing systems to send encrypted mail to other users of the same system. (If AOL/Compu$serve have rules against using their system for encrypted messages, I bet Cix or the Well don't, & even if they did there are hundreds of little geeky servers or old BBs out there still, or you could set up your own)
a really nice thing would be a mail client that did automagic crypt, plus a mixmaster component to hide the true name of the sender or receiver running on linux.
Well, you could write your own :-) But I think you would be reinventing the wheel.
A netscape plugin that did this would be very, very nice, if NS ever became truly opensource. Or some other client that handled html mail well.
You probably don't even need a plug-in. It should be possible to set up a single-purpose server that does nothing but take mail from one address & send it onto another, encrypted - in other words a crude remailer. Then run that on your own computer (which could be Windows if you wanted) and set your Netscape (or whatever mail client you like) to use your own machine as a server for outgoing mail. So you carry on using your mail client and it doesn't care that it has been told to use a server on the same PC it is on. Then the server encrypts the message & does a peer-to-peer connection with the other guy's server. I would expect that some of the mail that comes onto this list originates like that already.