Add NIP-M4: Email

[nogringo]

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[fiatjaf]

Given the number of people who have expressed liking the idea of "email on Nostr" in the past I expected this to have more feedback.

Since no one has come I'd leave mine: I think this makes no sense. There is nothing good about the email format, and this wouldn't be email. We need one good Nostr-native messaging protocol, not another standard for messaging, but this time all encoded in weird plaintext and then it isn't compatible with normal email anyway, of course.

If the idea is making bridges to normal email, why not make the bridge to NIP-17?

[nogringo]

Bridge to nip17 was my first idea but the nip17 client UI are not suited for emails. It work well to receive magic link / otp but when you want to reply, things get complicated.

There are also some feature that need a dedicated protocol:

• public emails
• large emails (more than 64 KB)
• sorting / labeling

[fiatjaf]

I'm beginning to see your point.

But why is it a problem to reply from NIP-17?
Why can't you sort/label NIP-17 messages?

[vitorpamplona]

I think a newl kind with its own formatting rules and rendering needs is needed.. reusing nip 17 will just overload the chat kinds with stuff they don't want.