Do you know about DIME ? The idea is very similar. But just saving the key from outgoing Autocrypt headers and encrypting everything that is not encrypted seems more realistic than replacing email protocols both in servers and clients of course.
jocutajar:
Another feature I have in mind is automatic account creation. You’ll send a signed message to say accounts@mydomain.chat with a command to claim the addresses included. The server automatically provisions an account for you and you could even authenticate using the private key… Registration fee could be included. In response to the claim message, the server could ask the user to send some bitcoins or what not otherwise drop the account after a week
Delta Chat already has “burner accounts” feature, which is essentially an automatic creation of accounts via HTTPS request to URL encoded in QR-code. Server side code is in GitHub - deltachat/mailadm: mail account administration tool for temporary and other account creation/modification
There is another thread with a similar idea:
I managed to run host1 .local and host2 .local using mDNS and each participant using its own simple-lightweight SMTP mail server, some details [1]
Then, now there is a possible setup-use case where you can use email in the same LAN, because thunderbird and claws mail allow to use a localhost mailbox (specifically, in file /var/mail/myuser). Next think I thought was to have a “decentralized chat” that would be possible if delta .chat manages the localhost mailbox.
I tried to login with myuser@l…
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