Well, my NIP 05 is also a working email address
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How do we interact with people who already have an email address they get everything else at for years and would probably just want to keep it that way?
Personally I don’t think everything should be on nostr. The email portion could be something as dumb as grabbing your post from your writing UI and importing it into a legacy email service.
Have gmail.com support NIP 05 😂
Simple forwarding would work, but would expose the destination email and confuse senders. Bi-directional forwarding (with a reply-to that points to the proxy) would work, but would potentially mess up users' contact lists. Email is just kind of gross this way, there's no way to pick up your identity and move.
The reverse could also work; emails sent to someone's NIP-05 could go to DMs and vice versa. Or someone could build an email client that supports that flow, but then that's just another email service.