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I am not sure it will come to pass, but I would like to see the following features: 1. Email user and domain certification. For example, when I receive an emai
by stevewilhelm 11y ago
I am not sure it will come to pass, but I would like to see the following features:
1. Email user and domain certification. For example, when I receive an email from john.doe@acme.com, there would be Email Certificate Authorities that would ensure the email was from John Doe and he works for Acme Inc. Or that johnnieD@jdoe.org is again John Doe and that jdoe.org is his personal domain.
2. Email archival services. These services would collect, store, and index email including all attachments. Would like legislation that would require all commercial Email providers to submit all of an individual's email to the archival service of the individual's choice.
3. Ability for email recipients to charge email senders an optional delivery fee. This will allow individuals to profit from being the target of spam email.
- adambrenecki 11y ago#1 already exists in the form of S/MIME, which uses the same kind of certificates as SSL and TLS do. Problem is, the certificates cost money (with the exception of StartSSL's) and basically all webmail clients don't support them. (Aside: It does make sense why webmail clients don't support sending S/MIME email, but I'll never understand why they refuse to do something useful when they receive a S/MIME signed email. If they did, that could pave the way for something akin to what EV does for the Web, so that I could look for a green bar that says "this email is signed eBay International AG" and know I'm not being phished, for instance.)