[timwis]

I read this article and was surprised when I reached the end because the whole thing felt like it was setting the stage for some announcement or new thing. But nothing came..? Forgive me if I'm being thick but what was the takeaway?

[jimbobimbo]

As a fastmail user I'm glad there was no announcement. Every time a company starts telling me about some bright future, this usually means my user experience is about to sink.

[frereubu]

But there is an announcement, called "The Future of Email", which is a clickbait title that would be much better titled with the last header of the last paragraph: "Email is not going anywhere".

[riffic]

I thought as well - it seemed like it was poised to say something about JMAP:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_Meta_Application_Protocol

[nunez]

Same; I was preparing for the "exciting new AI" announcement.

[jprjr_]

That was how I felt. "The Future of Email", from Fastmail - I immediately assumed some big announcement.

It's basically "you need to pass DMARC now" which has been true for 2 years.

It also goes into how authentication helps stop spoofed domains which yes, is true. But in my opinion the biggest problem isn't spoofed domains at all.

Attackers will figure out how to make your payment platform (PayPal, Stripe, etc) send out emails. They'll figure out what pieces of info make it into the generated emails, so they'll do things like set their company name to "there's a problem call this phone number." So next thing you know you're getting an email from PayPal that sounds urgent because they'll put that company name in the subject or body of the email.

These emails will be legit, from-the-actual-company, passes-all-authentication emails. DMARC can't catch that, and that's what I've been observing attackers do. They'll find a ticketing system or payment processor and get them to generate "authentic" emails.

I was sincerely hoping that Fastmail had something to deal with that problem.

[sgc]

I thought the most interesting part of the post was that they have an mcp endpoint for bring-your-own agents, and they won't be force feeding ai on anybody. In the security context of the post, they mean that you are responsible if your ai is duped into falling a victim, or tricked to send malicious mail.

[bensyverson]

The future of email is… the present of email!

[reaperducer]

Best news I've heard all day.

[netule]

Unless you’re a Gmail user.

[jms703]

Agree. I was waiting for the other foot to drop and then..."email's not going away."

Genuinely curious. Why is it posted and being upvoted here?

[Semaphor]

My guess: A lot of fastmail fans here. And people often upvote stuff from companies they like.

FM often(ish) posts blog posts that are very low key, sometimes they make it on HM, sometimes they don't.

[dieselgate]

With the recent articles about Proton supporting French right-wing candidates (from what I recall) individuals were mentioning how great Fastmail is as an alternative. That's my best guess at least

[calvinmorrison]

What does this even possibly mean? Fastmail has employees in the US, Europe and Australia. As far as I can tell with a warrant the government of any of these is likely to get a response from fastmail, just like if the government had a warrant to search my storage unit or review my bank statements. I don't understand the point you make. either there is rule of law or there isnt.

[advisedwang]

Because it's just inbound marketing. Write some random vaguely interesting blog article, post it everywhere, then watch as thousands of people see your brand name for the first time, connect it with being helpful. Maybe even see a search engine boost for your product.

[port11]

“The inbox of the future will be faster, smarter, and more capable than what most of us use today.”

There you go. They don’t know how to get there, but email’s getting faster and smarter and stuff.

[arrowsmith]

Yeah I had the same reaction. From the title I was expecting to find out what the "future of email" is. I'm still waiting.

[LearnYouALisp]

"A crummy ad??"

[nickpeterson]

They want you to drink your rich chocolate email.

[reaperducer]

Downvoters are obviously not fans of A Christmas Story.