[Pinckney]

I think one problem that's mostly overlooked is the difficulty of getting people to use desktop email clients. Particularly in my younger generation, we've grown up with webmail, and switching to desktop clients is a major switch.

I've also always found them to be very difficult to configure. I use one SMTP server on campus, and need to use my ISP's SMTP server elsewhere? What if I'm on public wifi? And how do I authenticate on that server when my credentials are from someone else? How do I get Gmail to play nicely with my folders?

PGP, in contrast, was not hard to set up.