Re:Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail
by e12e on Friday April 13, 2018 @05:53PM
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Not sending the content is breaking delivery (of email). I mean, sure, replace the headers and mail body with a link to your gopher site or something. But at that point, you're not really delivering email anymore.
Re:Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail
by johnchristopher on Friday April 13, 2018 @02:56PM
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Isn't that how protonmail works for non protonmail users ?
Re:Google is testing expiring emails in the new Gmail
by e12e on Friday April 13, 2018 @05:56PM
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Yeah, and it's not really email either. Facebook started doing something similar for its "email notifications" a good while back. At one point, they sent the comment body in the email notification alerting you to a new comment - so you didn't have to use the (Web) app just to read a couple of lines of text. So they used to have email integration. These days they've settled for email annoyance.
Why break delivery when you can break sending?
just store the contents locally, and replace the body with some URL that the user has to click..
then, when non-gmail users have been desensitized to clicking links in emails 'because gmail', and get viruses constantly, sell them gmail as a way to have email without risk of viruses.
win win!