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You might be interested in Dan Bernstein's IM2000 proposal, which centers around the idea that instead of sending email to a local server which forwards it to s
by dsr_ 10y ago
You might be interested in Dan Bernstein's IM2000 proposal, which centers around the idea that instead of sending email to a local server which forwards it to some number of other servers before it lands in an inbox, the local server hangs on to the body of the email and just sends a notification that it's available to be read.
This helps reduce the spam problem, because a mail sender needs to be contactable in order to read the content. Serving up the mail with https is a no-brainer.
You still have reputation problems and certificate authority issues, but the value of a botnet to send spam is greatly reduced.
- nkrisc 10y agoThat's pretty interesting. Once the recipient contacts the sender to view the contents, presumably their client could also download the contents to have it locally available, no? Would the retrieval of the email have to be user-initiated?
- dsr_ 10y agoThe retrieval has to be user-initiated, but there's no reason that the user can't automate it, especially for senders on a whitelist.
- sverige 10y agodjb has made some pretty useful stuff over the years. I hadn't heard of this proposal, but it makes complete sense.
- nkrisc 10y agoThat's cool. So for known senders the end user's experience would be no different than it is today.
- astrodust 10y agoIt just moves the failure points around. One day you can't get email content from anyone at Gmail, but everything else is okay.