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Re:Briar Mailbox released to improve connectivity by lucb1e on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:45PM (#36544871)
> 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.

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Re:Briar Mailbox released to improve connectivity by myself248 on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:18PM (#36545672)
Avoiding 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.

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