Re:AI Is Killing B2B SaaS
by Ucalegon on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @04:57PM
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Its not a device/MTA issue, SMTP just is not a secure protocol and there is not much you can do in order to 'secure' human communication. Things like spoofing or social engineering are near impossible to address within SMTP without external systems doing some sort of analysis on the messages or in combination with other protocols like DNS.
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Re:AI Is Killing B2B SaaS
by direwolf20 on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @05:10PM
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SMTP isn't at fault, the social ecosystem is at fault. Every system where identities are cheap has a spam problem. If you think a system has cheap identities and no spam, it probably doesn't have cheap identities — examples are HN or Reddit.