2026-04-17 14:30 UTC
Thank you for the explanation. But I don't understand how it can work if:
1. I send a message while my contact is offline,
2. then I go offline,
3. my contact comes back online while I'm still offline.
The message needs to be somewhere in between. This is a situation that occurs quite often when you message with people in very different time zones.
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@NovaFuture@lemmy.world 2026-04-17 14:40
Great question! Think of it this way: your own machine acts as the server. So yes, in your scenario, the message waits on your machine until both sides are online at the same time. Once that happens, it gets delivered automatically. It works exactly like regular email, except your PC does the job instead of an external server. No middleman needed. In practice, if you leave PeerBox running, the overlap happens naturally, even for a few seconds. And if you really need guaranteed async delivery across very different time zones, you could just keep PeerBox running on a machine that stays on, like a small home server or a Raspberry Pi.