What depresses me is that many organisations agree that SMTP needs some work. However the stakeholders simply don&#x27;t care enough to do anything about it, all Google is doing here is adding a pretty little icon for opportunistic encryption (that doesn&#x27;t work very well).<p>Let&#x27;s look at the biggest stakeholders in SMTP:<p>- Microsoft: Exchange (8% mail servers), Outlook (client), Outlook.com (23% of webmail).<p>- Google: Gmail &amp; Google Apps (40%  of webmail)<p>- Yahoo (21% of webmail)<p>- OSS: Sendmail, Postfix<p>So if Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! signed up that is the majority of SMTP on the internet today. Then we find some funds to get OSS updated (or summer of code), and boom, we have an SMTP update fit for 2015.<p>Heck have it downgrade for right now, and we can talk about actually switching over in 2025 or whatever. But at least in 2025 we&#x27;ll have something ready, the longer we take to kick this off the longer it will take to upgrade.<p>It is utterly insane that nothing is moving here. It is like SMTP is stuck in a perpetual IE 6 situation, and Microsoft is largely causing it all over again (Exchange + Outlook.com).