Yet another superb reason not to run your internal company comms on a publicly accessible email server.
Or to replace email for internal use altogether. TMTP is a new protocol with that goal:
Or to replace email for internal use altogether. TMTP is a new protocol with that goal:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-...
Hardly anybody does that, though.
If defense contractors keeping exchange on prem for security/compliance reasons are offering OWA on the internet, obviously there’s a deeper problem.
Isn't this the problem in replacing almost any technology that we know is "broken", it is often too ingrained to be replaced easily.
EDIT: you might never silence SMTP altogether, but a suitable protocol could supplant it for the great majority of its use cases.
The appearance of email being replaced exists in some places, but you find pretty quickly that you can't survive without it because it's still getting used for some critical communication or process.
The "new" email has been launched quite a few times now. It doesn't seem possible at this point unless all the major players agree on some new protocol which is seamlessly implemented in their mail services, while still allowing SMTP to function as a fallback to the improved protocol
I'm not aware of any alternative email protocol that's implemented, except TMTP. I don't believe closed-source, walled-garden services, which don't allow third-party clients or servers, really count as legitimate alternatives.
There's Matrix, but that's a synchronization protocol for chatrooms, not a store-and-forward messaging scheme.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Mail_Alliance
The stuff Ladar Levinson created after the Lavabit takedown, (famed for begin Snowden's email provider). Although I'm not just talking about email protocols; but additions or other improvements that always have the same problems (PGP encrypted email, or whatever Facebook tried to do when they reinvented email...)
I could see this being rolled out within an org where the one org can deploy clients & server to all internal users at once.