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Re:Outlook.com Is Quietly Rejecting Email from Domains Witho... by waterTanuki on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:57AM (#50422941)
why do we cling on to the email protocol at all?

We have dozens of different ways to send E2EE messages to each other, with realtime publish-subscribe, and yet billions of dollars are spent trying to duct tape email. Who cares if Outlook/Gmail/Icloud use IMAP or Websocket? If the interface looks the same to the end user will they really care?

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Re:Outlook.com Is Quietly Rejecting Email from Domains Witho... by account42 on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:29AM (#50423212)
Why are we so willingly ceding one of the few widely used free and open protocols to replace it with incompatible proprietary ones that don't interoperate?

Experience shows that the walls will get taller and the moats will get deeper.

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Re:Outlook.com Is Quietly Rejecting Email from Domains Witho... by waterTanuki on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:10PM (#50433683)
So free and open that open source email clients/servers are the most popular and widely used /s.

Protocols aren't proprietary by definition. It's a protocol. Anyone can implement it.

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