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Email is tremendously complex, uses multiple protocols to accomplish different tasks (or even the same task), and is fundamentally vulnerable to spam and can on
by stirner 10y ago
Email is tremendously complex, uses multiple protocols to accomplish different tasks (or even the same task), and is fundamentally vulnerable to spam and can only be patched with further complex hacks like SPF. Almost everyone now uses HTML email, an ill-defined and insecure idea, adding to the complexity of implementations.
If you think that email is a good system, trying setting up postfix, dovecot, sendmail, and whatever other hacks are required to make email usable.
- aisofteng 10y agoMy company provides my email access. As all companies do.
- stirner 10y agoThe complexity of email isn't a problem for the average end user who uses someone else's mail server (like me). It's a problem because anyone who wants to interface with email directly takes on the burden of the complexity, meaning fewer and lower-quality implementations of the protocol(s) and less innovation overall.