Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 12:18:21 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Jim Capozzoli <saltmiser@gmail.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gmail idea Message-ID: <458FC18D.2020301@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <37f72b1f0612241923h5c92e50kdff07783434efbbd@mail.gmail.com> References: <37f72b1f0612241923h5c92e50kdff07783434efbbd@mail.gmail.com>
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Jim Capozzoli wrote:
> I know this isn't related to FreeBSD at all, but I wanted to see what
> other people thought about this. What if google set up a mechanism
> where emails are shared between user accounts? Like, suppose this
> email is submitted to chat@freebsd.org, right, and the gmail mail
> server sees who is all getting mail from chat@freebsd.org. Then, it
> has only one copy of the message on the server, and points everybody's
> account who is supposed to have this message to that one copy on the
> server. Despite it seems like they have unlimited space this could
> probably seem useful to them anyway. :-P
>
> Is this a good idea or am I just insane? Btw I can't find the spot in
> google's support area to submit my idea so that's half the reason I
> sent it here incase anybody who works at google also happens to be
> subscribed to chat@. xD
>
If you set up your own server with Cyrus IMAPd (possibly others) this
is standard functionality -- you can easily create a shared namespace
for mailboxes or make news groups appear via IMAP.
Cheers,
Matthew
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