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> Briar Mailbox is a helper app for Briar messenger that lets you receive encrypted messages from your contacts while Briar is offline. Next time Briar comes on
by lucb1e 3y ago
> Briar Mailbox is a helper app for Briar messenger that lets you receive encrypted messages from your contacts while Briar is offline. Next time Briar comes online it will automatically fetch the messages from your Mailbox.
I never even considered that using Tor hidden services would mean you can't be sent messages when offline. Sounds like a useful addition.
"link [the mailbox] with your Briar account by scanning a QR code". Can a Mailbox receive for more than one device? Does the Mailbox get access to the messages (I assume not)? Sounds like having a few big servers would be useful here, and anyone who wants to self host can still do so.
- myself248 3y agoAvoiding big servers is the whole point, so I doubt they'd support anything that would make that easier. But I would love to run one phone-sized server for maybe a dozen friends, perhaps require mutual QR-scanning to get it set up.