[bruce343434]

As someone who configures email servers for a living (among other things): email needs to be replaced, frankly. This is a stupid protocol with even stupider file formats. What is the reason for such a hard coded line limit? It's just a stream of bytes...

Not to mention all the weird bandaids on top of bandaids to try to get sender verification and tamper proof emails working. That alongside the complete lack of end to end encryption.

It's just an incredibly unpleasant tech stack from top to bottom, through and through. The amount of moving parts/pieces of running software needing to cooperate just right to even function as a simple outgoing-only mail server is too damn high.

[vardump]

You’re not wrong, but how would you suggest to accomplish this? Replacing whole email infrastructure seems nearly impossible.

[bruce343434]

My hope is that people move away from email as they get tired by it, and towards more convenient instant messaging platforms which pretty much get the feature set right (attachments, encryption, blocking/spam provisions, provenance, "stories" and special group chat modes for broadcasting) and for which open protocols arise ((are being forced by the eu)): https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/6/24063705/whatsapp-interope...

In the future, I hope that email will be like fax, or at least treated like http in comparison to instant messaging (https).