[MlMt] DIME?

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 24 Aug 2017, at 20:21, Adam Liter wrote:

> As you might know, Lavabit announced that they are relaunching 
> (https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/22/14350496/secure-email-service-lavabit-relaunches).

I actually didn't know.

> Part of the relaunch plan includes the development and open sourcing 
> of DIME (Dark Internet Mail Environment), and two associated 
> protocols: DMAP and DMTP.
>
> There's a bit of information on this page: 
> https://lavabit.com/security.html.
>
> There's a spec here: 
> https://darkmail.info/downloads/dark-internet-mail-environment-march-2015.pdf.

That's a bit old and doesn't seem to describe how they define DMAP. I 
couldn't find anything newer though. I was just interested in seeing how 
much it differs from regular IMAP.

> And the GitHub repository is here: https://github.com/lavabit/libdime.
>
> I was just curious if this was on your radar at all, and, if so, 
> whether it's something you think you'd support in MailMate.
>
> It looks like the protocols are still in development, so things might 
> be still way too new for you to be able to say one way or the other. I 
> definitely understand if you don't know at this point. I was just 
> curious!

I can only promise to keep an eye on it.

-- 
Benny