From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from localhost (dcvr.yhbt.net [127.0.0.1]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8971520248; Wed, 13 Mar 2019 00:07:00 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 00:07:00 +0000 From: Eric Wong To: meta@public-inbox.org Subject: public-inbox for individual mail Message-ID: <20190313000700.5paqmd43escrydpg@dcvr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: An idea I've had in the back of my mind for a while is becoming an email service provider for people who want another address for contributing to Free Software projects. Additional private metadata on top of current public-inbox: * read/tagged/flagged/folder status of each mail That's it. The messages themselves would be public to all; but the extra flags can be private. There'd be spam and HTML rejection on outgoing SMTP/IMAP; and IMAP/POP3/Web-based read-access (along with incoming spam filters). IMAP means messages would have to belong to separate folders and movable/copy-able; but the messages would still be stored in git. This would be totally interoperable with all existing mailing lists, mail servers, and software.