I really want to see some innovation in the email space. The landscape is like a sea of false promises and dashed dreams. SMTP is one of the bread-and-butters of the internet, yet it just doesn't seem to be moving forward (maybe that's for the best), and no one's building extensions on top of it.
Maybe I'm naive in thinking it was possible but we could have avoided this whole "make an account on X messenger so we can talk", if someone had just jammed XMPP and SMTP together.
Every few years I'm tempted to try and write a SMTP server (MX) myself but then realize that postfix has been around so long and is the go to choice for a reason. I don't have 20 years of figuring out how X mail server interprets SMTP to be as reliable as postfix. I settled for trying to wrap it[0].
Maybe I'm naive in thinking it was possible but we could have avoided this whole "make an account on X messenger so we can talk", if someone had just jammed XMPP and SMTP together.
Every few years I'm tempted to try and write a SMTP server (MX) myself but then realize that postfix has been around so long and is the go to choice for a reason. I don't have 20 years of figuring out how X mail server interprets SMTP to be as reliable as postfix. I settled for trying to wrap it[0].
[0]: https://gitlab.com/postmgr/postmgr