How does ePOST work?
ePOST works by storing data on all participant desktops. This means that you desktop is storing some of your mail, but mail for a number of other users, too. All of the data in encrypted, however, which prevents other users from reading your mail, and vice-versa. In order to survive a failure by a participating machine, ePOST replicas all data onto multiple machines, and makes sure that a suffient number of copies of each data item are stored at all times. In order to use ePOST, users simply point their email clients to SMTP, POP3, and IMAP proxies running on their local machine. All major email clients have been tested with ePOST and been found to work. The ePOST proxies conform to the IMAP, POP3, and SMTP RFCs. Each of these proxies translates commands from IMAP, POP3, or SMTP into actions at the p2p layer, and sends request out to other nodes in the network. Thus, to ePOST users, mail looks exactly the same as a normal email server.
