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by Sae5waip 4390 days ago
Here are some problems, from the top of my head, in no particular order:

  - Subjects can't be encrypted.
  - Encrypted mailing lists are complicated. Do you reencrypt in the middle?
    What software do you use? The mailing list manager you use right now probably doesn't support it.
  - Enigmail still doesn't support storing e-mails decrypted*. As a consequence, full-text search doesn't work.
  - There's also S/MIME.
  - Theres no software to manage public/private keys enterprise-wide.
  - Legitimate server-side email retention requirements for enterprises
  - Many people are quite alright with "most other people won't be able my email; maybe governments can".
  - Most emails quite simply aren't that important.
  - How do you deal with lost keys?
  - Webmailers
  - Often, as a sender at a company, you can not afford to inconvenience contacts.
  - No easy way to synchronize keyrings.
  - Server side spam filtering not possible
  - Out-of-office auto-forwarding
  - The other side uses gmail.
  - Your mother keeps asking why you aren't on Whatsapp.
  - The "metadata" (who mail whom? when? how long are the emails?) is quite telling.
Please solve all of these.

Sorry for the unreadable list. Thank pg for the shitty markup format.