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> I’ve recently launched https://idbloc.co which aims to help deal with this

Nice! I just started working on the same thing, and it would be great to be able to drop the project… except trusting a new service with your e-mail is hard. (It’s even hard to trust established names like Google or ProtonMail.) If only every service supported encrypting e-mail so providers couldn’t read it. :(



I've been working on similar project since last year as well. (I slacked a little bit -- grad school and stuff). Too bad the SMTP protocol is limited. I was thinking of ways such a service can be designed in a provably secure way (where we don't get to actually read the messages, just apply rules based on headers only). Any thoughts?


(Actually, replace “trusting a new service” with “trusting 3+ new services” – it’s probably hosted on AWS or something, and https://idbloc.co/privacy mentions that mail is forwarded with MailGun.)




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