Gmail idea

[Matthew Seaman]

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 at freebsd.org, right, and the gmail mail
> server sees who is all getting mail from chat at 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 at . 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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