@aetios not?

@aetios i like email conceptually but i hate using it in practice, my mailbox is basically receive-only and 99% of that is automated emails
the protocol itself is completely unsuitable for private communication and it is by far *the* worst way to share files in currentyear
i really don't see any good reason to ever use it

@aetios also like, at this point sending email is extremely business-like to me
email is not fun

@aetios by "private" I mean confidentiality
it's fundamentally impossible to do e2ee correctly with email, because it is possible to send unencrypted messages *and* the "metadata" is always sent in clear
SMTP uses TLS nowadays but afaik messages are still sent through potentially untrusted relays in the common case

@novenary
@aetios I don't think untrusted relays are common. SMTP tls is mostly opportunistic, and may not actually take place. And if it does it's often old vulnerable versions of it with weak ciphers or even more downgrade attacks

@charlotte @aetios oh yeah that too

@aetios
Like https://useplaintext.email/ ?
and https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/ ?