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Re: [openpgp] So if we ever did redo the mail system from scratch...

2015-04-14 18:12:38
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Ryan Carboni <ryacko(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> 
wrote:
Given that everything is in the cloud, it might be best that an email's
contents is not downloaded until a user opens the email. The attachments too
will be opened when a user clicks on it.

W.r.t. attachments, this has already largely happened via webmail
providers' integration with cloud storage services.

Alas -- as Daniel Bernstein has also noted -- sender-stores is in many
respects better; but SMTP does not seem likely to go away soon.

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