The Time Has Come to Ditch Email?

Krishna Dagli writes to mention an article at The Register claiming that it's time we stop using email to communicate. From the article: "The problem is, email is now integral to the lives of perhaps a billion people, businesses, and critical applications around the world. It's a victim of its own success. It's a giant ship on a dangerous collision course. All sorts of brilliant, talented people today put far more work into fixing SMTP in various ways (with anti-virus, anti-phishing technologies, anti-spam, anti-spoofing cumbersome encryption technologies, and much more) than could have ever been foreseen in 1981. But it's all for naught."

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proper DNS

[SuperBanana]

All sorts of brilliant, talented people today put far more work into fixing SMTP in various ways (with anti-virus, anti-phishing technologies, anti-spam, anti-spoofing cumbersome encryption technologies, and much more)

It's funny how many of these problems would be at least partially solved by proper DNS.

Postfix, for example, can be configured to be varyingly anal about how closely the reverse lookup matches HELO, the MAIL FROM domain, etc. SPF extends the concept.

Re:Right......

[duerra]

How does this new email stop virii?

Hate to be a stickler, but it's viruses. Virii is not correct.