Ask HN: what about email is broken?
I've read many posts on HN, as well as blogs linked here, talking about email being broken. I've yet to see a good list as to what about it is broken, however.
In your thoughts, why is email broken?
In your thoughts, why is email broken?
When I send an email to somebody, I want to know that it has arrived, and I want to know that the only person that can read it is the recipient.
When I receive an email from somebody, I want to know that it definitely came from them.
We have SPF, DKIM and OpenPGP (all of which I use). The problem is, mail servers accept mail from domains that don't use SPF and DKIM, and more importantly, other people don't use OpenPGP.
Well, the technology is there and works as advertised. It is just getting people to adopt, and since people depend on hosting companies hosting companies need to upgrade. That hasn't happened. Ever. But it is not the failure of email, I would say, but a failure of the internet ecosystem that is incapable of upgrading itself because of its fragmentation.