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Funnily (or not) XMPP was designed to replace them all, at least functionally. Too bad there wasn't an XMPP champion pushing the development early on.


Well, IRC sorta as it does group chats. But email? Is there an XEP for that? XMPP can probably gateway to/from email, but XMPP can gateway to pretty much everything in the known universe...


An Email is a message with a subject line and potentially attachments. XMPP has the former in the core, can do the latter with XEP-231 (https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0231.html). A message can have one or multiple recipients, just like an XMPP message.

Email is really a simple form of messaging, where you put some content and expect the chain to route it to your destination; pretty much any IM system can emulate it, and XMPP goes a little bit beyond in providing the bits that different an email message from an IM message.




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