I run several of the smallest email sending services on the internet. Been doing it for 26 years or so.
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Email doesn't need fixing or a v2. I've run GroupWise, Exchange, Lotus (various flavours but never peppermint) and others too. For me, for little systems: Dovecot (IMAP) + Exim (MTA) is a golden combo.
Email_v1 itself is just complicated enough without being too funky. You bolt on TLS/SSL and the rest. MX records are a simplified form of SRV records (I think MX came first but the point holds) and remove the requirement for gateway load balancers and clustering technologies if you don't want to do all that stuff.
Nothing is perfect but email does deliver a lot more significant messages than any other method from before or since its inception.
{rest of your comment ... verbatim!}
Email doesn't need fixing or a v2. I've run GroupWise, Exchange, Lotus (various flavours but never peppermint) and others too. For me, for little systems: Dovecot (IMAP) + Exim (MTA) is a golden combo.
Email_v1 itself is just complicated enough without being too funky. You bolt on TLS/SSL and the rest. MX records are a simplified form of SRV records (I think MX came first but the point holds) and remove the requirement for gateway load balancers and clustering technologies if you don't want to do all that stuff.
Nothing is perfect but email does deliver a lot more significant messages than any other method from before or since its inception.