Email threats of all kinds will become more personalized, making them harder to ignore and more convincing.
  • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    51·
    2 days ago

    I keep wondering lately if email isn’t borderline useless for a lot of people anyway when it comes to communication with actual people (specifically outside of a business context).

    Aren’t many of the legitimate emails we receive today from systems where we already have an account and could be replaced by some sort of system of web hooks with service specific auth tokens? Potentially the messages there could be partially machine readable too (e.g. JSON) since most fall into similar categories (invoices, delivery announcements, password resets, calendar invites and/or reminders, bank account or other payment provider transactions or transaction logs for entire months, notifications about direct messages or other events received on some web application or game,…). This might also make it easier to process these automatically (e.g. let the user tell the system to automatically save all bank statements to a specific hard drive folder instead of manually logging in to download them each month after a reminder mail).

      • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        My point was more that we could get rid of the major downsides of email, namely the underspecified legacy technologies and the ability for anyone to send you one, for the vast majority of current applications.

        • opalfrost@friendica.world
          11·
          1 day ago

          @taladar
          And what do you think that automation script does?
          in edit: you can set it at your flavor is all I want to say, exclude this or do that.

          • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            Whatever you think it does it certainly doesn’t get rid of SMTP, IMAP, RFC822, Quoted Printable and half a dozen other encodings only used in email, MIME/Multipart, email addresses that require 8000 character regular expressions to get anywhere close to validating the full spec, the ability to send mails to anyone by anyone or anything else I was talking about.

            • opalfrost@friendica.world
              11·
              1 day ago

              @taladar
              consider validate.email and py3-validate-email
              +````import re
              import smtplib
              from email.mime.text import MIMEText
              from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart

              server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL(‘smtp.example.com’, 465)

              try:
              server.login(‘sender@example.com’, ‘password’)

              msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = 'sender@example.com'
msg['Subject'] = 'Test email'

body = 'This is a test email sent using Python.'
msg.attach(MIMEText(body, 'plain'))

email_list = [
    'recipient1@example.com',
    'recipient2@example.com',
    'recipient3@example.com'
]

for email in email_list:

    email_regex = r'^\w+@[a-zA-Z_]+?\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}$'
    if re.match(email_regex, email):

        msg['To'] = email
        server.sendmail('sender@example.com', email, msg.as_string())
        print(f'Sent test email to {email}')
    else:
        print(f'Invalid email: {email}')

              except Exception as e:
              print(f’Error: {e}')

              finally:
              server.quit()````

              now the DNS erno is there, totally normal as I display here and just used examples.
              w3schools.com/python/trypython…