Idea for experiment: mail to fediverse?
My ambition: having people writing to “username @ domain dot ext” and mail content goes into public, or private, on fediverse “handle @ domain . ext”.
Someone already did it? Pros and cons? Disadvantages are more than benefits?
I heard about a trick called “mail2mastodon” but before doing deeper research I first wanted to understand how the effort is, and if it’s worth.
@elettrona @selfhosted
my response would be to run a mail server with widely published email addrs for a while. you’ll see how much fun it is to mitigate spam vs just moderating signups on your fediverse instance.
postfix/dovecot flow through my veins and I think one just popped imagining it. I may not be getting the end game here.
OP: Do you mean sending DM/PM’s to users at certain instances? This would require each one to have correctly (and strict) aligned SPF/DMARC/DKIM … or a cluster that handles it for them and pushes it via API to the instance.