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I recently thought about email being based on such an old standard and then I wondered if maybe it didn't matter anymore, because most of the web is moving to g
by busfahrer 8y ago
I recently thought about email being based on such an old standard and then I wondered if maybe it didn't matter anymore, because most of the web is moving to gmail, and my guess is (and somebody please correct me) that when I send an email from gmail to gmail, that no actual SMTP is involved? I'm assuming that they have some internal protocol that is just adapter'd to "Email" at the very end?
- beagle3 8y agoIt fakes it, at the very least - you can do a “show original message” and see all the RFC.822 and mine headers. Microsoft Exchange used to not bother with actually SMTPing when talking to another exchange server (or itself), I don’t know what it does these days.
- pjc50 8y ago> most of the web is moving to gmail This isn't true; there's a LOT of industry on Exchange of some sort, and plenty of older institutions running their own email. Especially in IETF land. And it's a huge risk increase if everyone moves everything to gmail.
- mattnewport 8y agoI hear of a lot more people moving away from Gmail than moving to Gmail.