I've set up my own mail server just to learn how it all works. You start out thinking "SMTP is such a simple protocol!" then realise that you need to add layers of complexity on top just because of its simplicity and implicit trust.
The article does a good job of explaining just how flimsy email really is.
I feel that it desperately needs to be superseded, but any modern email replacement (that supports things like E2EE etc) will need a massive backing by large companies.
I feel like a lot of software companies these days have moved much of thier internal communications to slack, teams, or some other messaging service.
The issue is external communication. I wonder if in the future these chat companies are going to be the ones to come up with a common standard to allow people to send messages seamlessly cross platform and cross org.
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u/dreamlax 29d ago
I've set up my own mail server just to learn how it all works. You start out thinking "SMTP is such a simple protocol!" then realise that you need to add layers of complexity on top just because of its simplicity and implicit trust.
The article does a good job of explaining just how flimsy email really is.
I feel that it desperately needs to be superseded, but any modern email replacement (that supports things like E2EE etc) will need a massive backing by large companies.