@mysticmode yeah big corps like Google hindering email is a flaw. If more people self hosted, it could help stop the centralisation.

IMO flaws in email are: security (ha! What security), that it's hard/practically impossible to send large files, and most email clients being horrible (IMO). And spam of course (which is partially why we have centralisation)

@ebel @mysticmode those are pretty big flaws.

@trwnh @mysticmode yeah it's a great shame.... 😔

@bob @ebel oooh, TIL
how much of the security issues does that solve?

@grainloom @ebel It solves a bunch of them. There are no issues with STARTTLS or certificates. You don't need GPG. You get transport security and metadata defense. And you can still use your existing email clients. The down side is that not many MTAs are set up to handle onion addresses.

@bob @grainloom @ebel how do you have to setup an MTA to handle onion addresses?

@hirojin @ebel @grainloom It's complicated and I've only done it with exim4. I could do a blog post on it. Like a lot of server related things, the information about how to do this which exists on the web is fragmentary or just wrong.

@hirojin @bob @grainloom I've never done it with MTA. But Tor has a transparent proxy thing ( https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TransparentProxy ), which might be useful for making any programme onion address aware (I've only briefly played with it, and the docs point out it's not very secure)