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Compatibility and issues with SMTP
Why does SMTP based Email have to be substituted.
Does the new Email still work with the existing SMTP protocols? Any change must be compatible with the existing infrastructure.
im2000 Concepts
Why does the Email address not contain an account name and a domain.
What happens when there are multiple recipients to a message?
How will this protocol know when to delete the outgoing message file? How long will the message file remain before being automatically deleted and therefore no longer retrievable?
The current system leaves a message for a client to read at his leisure. This system will require all clients to retrieve their mail within a given period. What happens when they go on an extended vacation?
Not knowing the content of a message will have it's drawbacks and may require more traffic on the Internet.
A business that has to accept email from customers will not know the difference between mail from a spammer and mail from a potential new client. How will this be handled?
When you mean no recipients, do you mean `"undisclosed-recipients`"? Mailing lists frequently use Blind Carbon Copy all the time to hide one subscriber's email address from another.
There will always have to be a bounce notice of some sort to acknowledge a mis-spelled or discontinued email address.
Security and Spam
How can you ensure that your method of verifying identities cannot be exploited to "harvest" mail addresses for spamming?
The mail storage may be exploitable by people probing for unread outgoing mail.
Sender Blacklisting will require an enormous sender/recipient database on every mail server that will increase exponentially in size as well as the mail processing time as the Internet grows.
Spammers can trawl for addresses. The protocol will have to report which are valid and which are invalid. Then they sell the list to other spammers like they do now.
If you're still getting the spam, what's the point of switching to a new protocol?
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