Gregory's Serverinspired by an @foone post, I've been working on a Mastodon to POP3/SMTP bridge that enables email clients on retro and modern machines to read and post to Mastodon. It supports images (both posting and viewing), replies, and HTML/Unicode. Plus it's written in rust, for the hacker cred. Check it out, I'd love to see what machines can talk to it!
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 @nkizz you deploy your own smtp/pop server, with no tls, alongside, I suppose. Seems great, could be real easy to setup on a Pi. A neat idea here that could also probably better preserve threading and such could be a Mastodon to NNTP (Newsgroup/usenet) bridge. Most of those older mail clients also supported usenet too. @ChartreuseK oh, true! ive always been foggy on newsgroups, I’m so much more used to listservs that I always equate them in my head, I should check out the protocol  @nkizz wow! i am unreasonably excited to send a toot from something like claris emailer on mac os 9  @nkizz Funny enough, I had this idea in my head just the other night that it could be something Microsoft could do for Outlook/Hotmail/Live accounts that say they want to connect to a federated service like Mastodon and thus have their email address be used as a federated service address. That idea branched off thinking about how Microsoft would probably need to have an account on a federated service and thus their own server for at least Windows Update announcements. |
there’s a lot of great options for using older browsers (like frogfind) but retro email clients (a HUGE application of computers) are pretty much isolated unless you want to wrestle with gmail SSL
so I like how it’s a way to get actual use out of them