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Someone should really revamp email (lemmy.ml)
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Email is already nicely federated, but I think it's time for a change. Services like protonmail claim to offer encryption between users, but you can't host your own instance. It would be awesome if there was a spec somewhere for a federated email service that defines

  • email encryption between users
  • markdown
  • ~~connection with activity pub? (What would this look like)~~ I mean some way to "email the web", ie: add comments via email
  • compatibility with standard email users (if you send/receive to/from a user who does not have email v2 implemented it just uses normal features)
  • somehow better support for email discussion groups (hop in and out, public interface defined)
  • this spec should be focused heavily on usage for humans instead of automated mailing, I expect html would not be defined.

I'm just spit balling here. Does anyone have any ideas? Does something like this exist?

Thanks, Evan

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[โ€“] wahming@monyet.cc 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never actually self hosted my email, primarily due to not wanting to mess with the issues listed.

[โ€“] videodrome@lemmy.capebreton.social 1 points 1 year ago

You should try it some time, just for the learning exercise :)

I won't invalidate the writers experience , I just want to add that that hasn't been my experience with properly configured environments (not saying the writers was improperly configured, it clearly wasn't).