The primary problem for email at this point is that it's a highly effective cyberattack channel, because it allows anyone, claiming any identity, to send you any content, without limits. This cannot be "fixed" as it's the intended function.
No one was working on an alternative that addresses this problem, so I drafted & implemented "TMTP". It also addresses a variety of other common email problems.
This is a pure puff piece for a new webmail app. I'd love to know how the BBC (of all outlets) came to publish this article.
If I may say so, the mnm project also deserves coverage like this. It prevents spy-pixels, and phishing, and provides unsubscribe (from threads, or senders, or whole sites). And a heck of a lot more :-)
mnm, an open source project to replace email & SMTP:
That is an interesting approach. Care to let us know how you go from https://github.com/ronomon/mime to some kind of SMTP server plugin (like for postfix for example)?
Since we are on the topics of email clients.
I just started migrating out of the gmail web client,
and I think this is a very interesting project.
However, I just started using https://notmuchmail.org/ . It has a C library (and shell, python, haskell etc. bindings) with loads of clients (emacs, vim, web, etc.).
My favorite mail experience, by some margin, was using nmh (https://www.nongnu.org/nmh/). I recall it taking some doing to set up and then some aliases and such to make it usable - but then it was very usable.
I use notmuch for my email workflow. It has Python APIs. This is trivial to do with it. The downside is that it's for PCs, not phones. I suppose one could hack a mail server around its tags so you could use it via the phone as well. Never thought about it...
You’re probably thinking about Hey https://www.hey.com. The issue I see with it is that it goes beyond a refreshed interface and breaks IMAP compatibility.
https://mnmnotmail.org
https://twitter.com/mnmnotmail
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