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A comment on Ask HN: If there is a replacement for email, what should be the requirements?.

Re:Ask HN: If there is a replacement for email, what should ... by dane-pgp on Sunday March 20, 2022 @07:01PM (#30747676)
Requirement 1: It should be backwards compatible with existing email systems.

As examples, consider Delta Chat and the Autocrypt specification it's built on.

https://delta.chat/en/

https://autocrypt.org/

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Re:Ask HN: If there is a replacement for email, what should ... by badrabbit on Sunday March 20, 2022 @09:54PM (#30749150)
What do you think of a protocol that is not compatible with email at all but at the transport level can relay SMTP to SMTP servers intact? MUA's (clients) would either add support to the new protocol or dedicated clients would be used?
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Re:Ask HN: If there is a replacement for email, what should ... by dane-pgp on Monday March 21, 2022 @02:07PM (#30757584)
I'm not sure what would be gained by that compatibility break. If it was something like the "upgrade" from plaintext email to HTML email, where both could be supported in the same message, I think that could be a reasonable approach, but I can't imagine anything that could be improved at that level.
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