Email is an open system, right? Anyone can send a message to anyone... unless they are on Gmail! School Interviews uses two email servers t...

Email is an open system, right? Anyone can send a message to anyone… unless they are on Gmail! School Interviews uses two email servers t…

  • anlumo@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Email is a relict of a bygone era and needs to die. It’s not designed for the modern Internet, and no patching like DKIM and DMARC can fix that.

    • wahming@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Do share the alternative with us, that’s universally supported and not owned by a corporation.

        • Master@beehaw.org
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          1 year ago

          So the article is about unwarranted 12 hour delays and your solution is to use a federated platform where delays are built into the system between server syncs? The fact that people cant see your other post yet because their local servers have not synced your post to this thread should be the first sign that this might not be a good solution to this email problem…

          • anlumo@feddit.de
            1·
            1 year ago

            Email also is a federated platform that syncs. It’s just a matter of getting this working, it’s a solved problem on a conceptual level.

            For example, all mail servers come with an outbound queue for mails to retry for at least a day until the mail goes through. Lemmy simply discards the message after a single try. This is a result of being beta-level software that just hasn’t been fully finished yet.

            • wahming@kbin.social
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              1 year ago

              Yeah it’s not showing up for whatever reason. Anyway, your reply boiled down to ‘Something that doesn’t exist yet’. It’s probably a good idea to get the replacement tech up and running, and work out the kinks, before cheering for the death of our workhorse communication method.

              • anlumo@feddit.de
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                1 year ago

                Mine was an aspirational comment, not “we should do this right now”. A replacement won’t happen by itself unless there’s a vision to make something like that.

      • snooggums@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Ubermail, where independent contractors would deliver communication while funded by VC money for a few years until they come up with some kind of electronic mail service.