Comment by riffic

Comment by riffic 4 days ago

there shouldn't be a rush to replace the things that have stood the test of time. Lindy's law would suggest a protocol that's been around 40+ years is fundamental and won't be going anywhere anytime soon.

snvzz 4 days ago

When it comes to SMTP for email, time has only served to highlight its inadequacy.

DMAC, DKIM, SPF, S/MIME, PGP are all ugly workarounds. The issues are fundamental.

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riffic 3 days ago

those ugly workarounds are actually brilliant signs of adaptability (not signs of failure). SMTP isn't inadequate, it's resilient. There's a good chance we'll still have SMTP around another 50-500 years.

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- snvzz 3 days ago
  
  No, we won't w/o breaking changes. There's no way.
  Even ignoring pressing issues like lack of mandatory E2EE, SMTP requires encoding binary data into text. This includes the main body for most emails these days. Awfully wasteful.
  So it will go the way of FTP.
  
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