I think we just want a decent Mac e-mail app for now. But you should start a mailing list for replacing the e-mail protocol; Letters could support the new protocol once it’s fleshed out.
Yours sincerely, Paul Waite On 27 Jan 2010, at 3:08 p.m., James Cox wrote: > Hey, > > I've skimmed the messages, because you lot talk *a lot* and so if this > has be brought up before, then apologies. > > I think this is something that's been touched on a little bit - and I > wanted to throw this in for group think. > > So, there's lots of awesome work trying to rethink the UX of email on > the desktop, and the ideas coming out look really great. I, for one, > can't wait. > > But the biggest thing I think that's going to hold all of this back is > the mail protocol, the way messages are handled, stored, transmitted. > So, perhaps this is time to consider a new spec for email? (maybe this > is a side project, based on the work from Letters.app?). This would > mean we'd switch to a more structured format, have better meta data, > more focus on real sender/receiver (lets try and cut spam out) and > something better for managing inboxes -- e.g. what if a mailbox was > really just a git repository? > > What if the spec for email actually had a proper structure for virus > and spam scanning? Location data? Organization data? Identity Data? > > (it'd be nice to do-away with noisy signatures if that stuff just > happened in the meta data for an email, no?) > > I don't know the whole scope for what this would look like, but the > current spec we use for email (RFC 2822) is almost ten years old now, > and in that time, spam has become 90% traffic and hacks have occurred > to describe the provenance and reasoning for the messages we receive. > I think that's kinda lame, and it'd be well worth looking at that > again. > > What does that mean for Letters.app? > > If people here are interested in this and taking it further, then > perhaps Brent will oblige another list to discuss an 'ideal world' > spec, and we could consider implementing that as the spec between the > data store and letters.app. Heck, it would be fairly simple to modify > postfix or similar to spit out emails formatted this way to applicable > clients. Then, perhaps we can pull a whatwg and push this into the > wider consciousness as a better specification for email. > > Or I could be talking to myself. :) > > Best, > > James Cox > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list List help: http://lists.ranchero.com/listinfo.cgi/email-init-ranchero.com
