Do you have a recommendation on the least horrible big email company to use for a personal domain? I'm using Proton, but I'm mildly annoyed that they don't provide native IMAP - you have to install their Proton Mail Bridge app.
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I switched to posteo.net for that reason.
We should have a better system than email.
- email protocol is atrocious. This leads to few options for clients and nearly no library to work with. I'd like to setup a box with a limit for unread mails and a API to publicly show the current number of unread mail. That would enable me to put a box out there for anyone to contact me and have a feedback about the likelihood of an answer. This is nearly impossible right now.
- email protocol was created before spamming became a thing. There is no mechanism to deal with that. Everything is ad-hoc/workaround. Any modern messaging systens have either a way to ask permission to send messages first or some report/block system. We could also have a trust system to score nodes of the network.
A better system is way overdue in my opinion.
Agree completely.
In my eyes the features that make email successful are the decentralization, that it is not a product of a company, the wide client support and that can be used offline.
The successor should have equivalent features.