Question: How to setup the server

Hi David,

I was looking thru the examples that you have on the page, but I did not fully understand how this works.

1. In the davemail.json file there is a key called "servers"
   "servers": [
   {
   "ssh": "git@github.com:davidapple/davemail.git",
   "username": "anonymous",
   "password": "example",
   "key": "ssh-rsa
   Do I need to specify my own git repository here and add the ssh key from the local machine?

2. If a friend of mine sets up a davemail server on his local machine, and lets say he will be using the username "johndoe". Will I be using the "johndoe" as the name for sending email to him?

3. Are you doing any active development on this project? I think its a really interesting concept. I was looking into the possibility to create a decentralized, encrypted email services like Protonmail, Tutanota and similar. This services are very good but I think they charge a lot for the storage, 5$/month for 5GB. They have 500MB-1GB for free, but his is not much.

Thanks!

[davidapple]

Davemail is not being actively developed. It is more of a working idea than a realistic communication tool. The web app has to try to decrypt every message in the json file, so as you might imagine, it will not scale. Perhaps it would work for small groups of people that regularly delete old messages.

My hope is that Davemail inspires people to develop similar systems.