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The future of email: From smtp to xmpp
- jrockway 18y agoWasn't this posted yesterday? EDIT: Yes. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=222424 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=222424 If you don't read this site, why submit to it?
- rabble 18y agoSorry about the double post, i wrote the article and posted it, but somebody else had already put it up. Woops. I wrote the post, went to sleep, and submitted in the morning. I read the site, but not while i sleep.
- sant0sk1 18y ago"I read the site, but not while i sleep." We really need to work on your REM productivity... :P
- kogir 18y agoPerhaps I'm missing it, but what does changing the delivery protocol buy you? XMPP does little to nothing more than email in terms of sender verification. SPAM would continue unabated.
- bct 18y ago> XMPP does little to nothing more than email in terms of sender verification. SMTP doesn't do any verification at all, does it? XMPP uses SSL if possible and otherwise does a dialback so you can at least be sure the message was sent from the server it claims to be from. The other aspect is that XMPP is young enough that it can still change to do more (since there are only a handful of clients and servers, as compared to SMTP). As far as I can tell, SMTP is completely stagnant and any improvements that can't be made unilaterally won't happen. (I'm not very familiar with SMTP, I'd love to be proven wrong.)
- wmf 18y agoSPF allows some verification of mail servers and some antispam systems will do an SMTP callback to verify that the sender address is a valid address.
- bct 18y agoHow widely are those deployed? Can you get away with ignoring submissions from servers that don't have them set up?
- dfranke 18y agoNo, not even close. SPF is not a spam prevention measure. It's just a way of protecting innocent senders from being impersonated by spammers. DKIM does a better job at the same purpose.