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# Why does each user needs their own mailbox?
_to be answered_
This is meant to avoid a situation where a few providers end up running mailboxes for everyone, as happened with email. Tf it doesn't work out then we may need to reconsider this, but we want to try the "one user, one mailbox" approach first and see if it can succeed.
If you have a mailbox and your contacts don't, they can communicate with you via your mailbox. But they can't communicate with each other via your mailbox - for that they would need their own mailboxes.
# When I introduce two contacts to each other, do they need to come online at the same time to start using their mailboxes?
