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From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete•org>
To: Jonathan Lane <tidux@sdf•org>
Cc: nncp-devel@lists.cypherpunks.ru
Subject: Re: Announcing Filespooler
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 19:03:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878rqg2aot.fsf@complete.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YpZZcQqx/oNV6mNo@beastie>

On Tue, May 31 2022, Jonathan Lane wrote:

>
> Very cool! One thing I'd add to your Syncthing article is that Syncthing
> supports the concept of a folder being send-only or receive only, so you
> could potentially wire up a full send-receive pair over a pair of
> folders if you only needed to write between two machines.  With a bit of
> clever integration with Postfix you could probably use this as a mail
> bridge.

Quite true, one could tunnel Postfix or Exim over Filespooler as easily
as over NNCP.  However, the problem with a unidirectional Syncthing
folder is the one of knowing when to delete the file.  With
bidirectional syncing, the sender creates, and the receiver deletes
after processing.

- John

  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-02  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-30  0:23 Announcing Filespooler John Goerzen
2022-05-31 17:13 ` John Goerzen
2022-05-31 18:07 ` Jonathan Lane
2022-06-02  0:03   ` John Goerzen [this message]
2022-06-07 10:32 ` Sergey Matveev
2022-06-10 13:14   ` John Goerzen
2022-06-10 18:48     ` Sergey Matveev
2022-06-10 20:46       ` John Goerzen
2022-06-10 21:24         ` Rust building Sergey Matveev
2022-06-14 13:59           ` John Goerzen
2022-06-14 18:19             ` Sergey Matveev