Email is good.

Just saw the JMAP protocol idea the other day, then heard about it again on the Talk Show. JMAP is not a conversion of IMAP to JSON; it is a new protocol. It was designed to make much more efficient use of network resources, to be easier for developers to work with, and hopefully to…

Remember Thunderbird? It was an email client from Mozilla that was… pretty good? If you were a Firefox fan, perhaps you’d use Thunderbird for email too, as you had proclivity toward that vein of software. Perhaps you remember it from the olden email days like with Eudora and all that. I’m just trolling you with…

I heard more chatter than I would have guessed about Mimestream “launching”. I guess I’m surprised just because of how niche it is: Plus it’s… kinda… ermmmm…. almost exactly like the free Apple Mail? Quick, guess which is which? I just kind of assume that Mimestream plays nicer with Gmail, although I couldn’t give you…

Somehow, I’ve had the same phone number every since I’ve had a phone. Twenty five years! Every time I’ve gotten a new phone, or more to the point, changed carriers, it was trivially easy to keep the number, so I did. It’s been nice, actually. I feel like it makes it easy to get a…

As in, a place that is special, important, and private to you. A place where outside influence isn’t really welcome. A place where you don’t expect change or surprises. I’d say the answer is “pretty darn holy” for anyone that takes email cryptography seriously. And I say that just because it means doing some pretty…

Pen Pals is just a great concept! You write back and forth with someone, that’s it. It’s cooler with paper and stamps. The tactile multimedia nature, the time delays, the old school vibes. I used to write my younger half sister letters when I was in college. She found one recently and sent me photos.…

This is the kind of thing that keeps me interested in this whole subject of email. Especially as it pertains to “everyone”. Not just specifically niche-y email-nerd flows, but the general usage of email by the common citizen of Earth. This is just a joke. It’s a decent joke. I probably would have found it…

The oldest trick in the book is the Gmail one where you do like: And that still comes to my main email address (the one without the “+” and the extra text). Then if that gets leaked to spammers or whatever, I know what site it was, and I can set up a filter to…

BORING:“I emailed them and am waiting to hear back.” SPICY, EXCITING:“The trap is set, now we wait…” Dave Rupert

Most email is from one person to one person. Or at least handled by one person. But not all of it! Customer support email is a classic example, especially customer support email that doesn’t have some exotic middleman ticketing system in between. Perhaps a company has an email address like support@widgets.corp and that’s just how…