I subbed to Proton years ago for the decent email service. I refuse to touch anything else they’ve made. Zero interest in a secure mail platform becoming an all-new “all in one platform”.
At this point I’m tempted to put real time in to discovering how to best self host email, because all these @#%ing companies are the same.
Keeping the reputation clean is the real issue. Google and MS handle most of the email traffic. If you get blacklisted for any reason, it’s a black hole to fix. And the reason may not be relevant; could just be your host’s IP allocation is blocked.
That is why we should stop relying on email as a login or account recovery method and move to a fully passkey-based system (or something similar), where providing an email address becomes optional rather than a requirement for registration.
At the same time, direct communications between individuals or businesses, especially those that still rely on legacy, letter-like mechanisms, should also evolve. We need a new standard, similar in spirit to what Signal has achieved for instant messaging, but designed for more formal and authenticated communications.
I subbed to Proton years ago for the decent email service. I refuse to touch anything else they’ve made. Zero interest in a secure mail platform becoming an all-new “all in one platform”.
At this point I’m tempted to put real time in to discovering how to best self host email, because all these @#%ing companies are the same.
Keeping the reputation clean is the real issue. Google and MS handle most of the email traffic. If you get blacklisted for any reason, it’s a black hole to fix. And the reason may not be relevant; could just be your host’s IP allocation is blocked.
That is why we should stop relying on email as a login or account recovery method and move to a fully passkey-based system (or something similar), where providing an email address becomes optional rather than a requirement for registration.
At the same time, direct communications between individuals or businesses, especially those that still rely on legacy, letter-like mechanisms, should also evolve. We need a new standard, similar in spirit to what Signal has achieved for instant messaging, but designed for more formal and authenticated communications.