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
    12·
    4 months ago

    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·
      4 months ago

      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·
        4 months ago

        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.