Yeah. Source: try mailing me at my Lemmy handle.
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Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 5 days agoBut if one were to run their own Lemmy instance and mail server it would be fully possible? That would in such cases be a fun thing to do
rikudou@lemmings.world 5 days ago
crank0271@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Well, sure, but SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) and ActivityPub are different protocols. It’s similar to speaking different languages. It’s an imperfect analogy, but if you speak only English and someone came through your door and just started speaking Spanish, you wouldn’t know what to do with it and just disregard it (social and personal space issues aside). If you then created a new door for Spanish and staffed it with a Spanish speaker and appropriate signage, the English speakers would come in the English door and the Spanish speakers would go to the Spanish door and each of you would know what to do.
It bears repeating that administering an email service is a pain in the ass.