Re:Curing Our Slack Addiction
by dingo_bat on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @12:10AM
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I've always wondered about the viability of an email client that behaves like a chat client. Instant send with the enter key, messages in bubbles, etc. You get all the fun of IM without additional infrastructure or services, and in a standard way too. No walled gardens of different apps.
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Could be a pretty cool UI solution to have a chat client that uses PGP encrypted e-mail in the background, but Gmail SMTP has a send limit of 100 e-mails per day. You would run into that rather quickly with a chat UI.
I guess the chat client could do all the e-mail sending from some of their maintainer e-mail servers and not from under the chat participant e-mail. Then we would start losing comaptibility with other e-mail clients though. Although not completely, as we could set Reply-To headers and when another e-mail client replies to [email protected], we could just forward it to the correct e-mail.
An interesting concept indeed.