A historical review of the multi-decade centralization and capture of the email protocol.

Interesting history and analysis of SMTP’s history. How can we prevent fedi and other open protocols from suffering the same fates?

  • xyguy@startrek.websiteEnglish
    10·
    1 年前

    Can, yes.

    Should, maybe.

    Enjoy doing, unlikely.

    And for sure your home isp has all the email ports blocked upstream.

    With all that being said, to call SMTP dead is wildly insane. I do figure it will die someday though. Probably around the same time of universal IPV6 adoption during the year of the linux desktop.

    • denshirenji@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 年前

      My ISP doesn’t. It an electric company that offers fiber, so not your typical telecommunications company. Still though, not a single blocked port.

      On topic, I tried an email server and it is too much of a pain in the ass IMHO, without the requisite training and experience, but certainly not impossible.

      • Dave.@aussie.zone
        3·
        1 年前

        My most recent ISP does CGNAT. They don’t hide it, it’s mentioned in their support pages. A quick email is all it takes to switch you over to an open address though.

        Anyway I’ve got a $5/mo server with akami that looks after my email and it’s associated domain.

        It took about three hours of following a guide to set up DMARC and etc etc and it works unobtrusively, and is about ten times faster than my old ISP IMAP account that I had for about twenty years.