On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM Max Nikulin <maniku...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] > Let's avoid discussions if gmail should be used. De-facto it is widely > used, it has features and limitations. My point is that gmail users > should be aware that some suggestions perfectly valid for other MUA > should be avoided in the mail.google.com web application.
I've avoided this argument since it seems like a fallacious argument for gratuitous subject changes, but it may explain the use of Gmail and friends... One thing to remember about big tech email services, like Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail: The companies are driving modern web and internet security standards. If you want multifactor authentication (MFA) on your email account, then you will likely need to use one from big tech. The big tech companies incorporate FIDO, FIDO2 and WebAuthn protocols. (There are some 3rd party email services also providing MFA, but it is not standardized and the smaller companies are the exception, not the rule). Sadly, the IETF has not managed to provide an email standard that includes MFA taken workflows. The IETF's email standards are still just password based. The IETF has been asleep at the wheel. There are some awful looking proposals on occasion. The proposals are awful looking (to me) because they do things like add email+http instead of adding new email verbs to just the existing email RFCs like RFC 5321 (SMTP), RFC 3501 (IMAP) and RFC 1939 (POP). If anyone is interested in following the IETF's progress (or lack thereof), join the IETF's mailmaint mailing list. See <https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/mailmaint/about/>. Jeff
