A new open email standard: https://jmap.io/

A new open email standard: https://jmap.io/

[Tassilo Horn]

Hi all,

I just stumbled upon that in the FastMail newsletter and couldn't resist
sharing it here.  Feel free to do with that information whatever you
want, e.g., implement a nnjmap Gnus backend. ;-)

  https://fastmail.blog/2019/08/16/jmap-new-email-open-standard/
  https://jmap.io/

Bye,
Tassilo

Re: A new open email standard: https://jmap.io/

[황병희]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I just stumbled upon that in the FastMail newsletter and couldn't resist
> sharing it here.  Feel free to do with that information whatever you
> want, e.g., implement a nnjmap Gnus backend. ;-)
>
>   https://fastmail.blog/2019/08/16/jmap-new-email-open-standard/
>   https://jmap.io/

As normal user, that looks cool. If possible, i have to some hope for fast nnimap^^^

Sincerely,

-- 
^고맙습니다 _地平天成_ 감사합니다_^))//

Re: A new open email standard: https://jmap.io/

[David Engster]

> I just stumbled upon that in the FastMail newsletter and couldn't resist
> sharing it here.  Feel free to do with that information whatever you
> want, e.g., implement a nnjmap Gnus backend. ;-)
>
>   https://fastmail.blog/2019/08/16/jmap-new-email-open-standard/
>   https://jmap.io/

They try to establish this for many years now, but I don't see it taking
off. It surely has nice features for mobile users, but people use
messengers there anyway. For Gnus, I don't think you'd notice much
difference over IMAP. But first they would have to get this into an
actual popular IMAP server (meaning: Dovecot). Until then, this is
pretty much a Fastmail-only thing.

-David

Re: A new open email standard: https://jmap.io/

[Tassilo Horn]

David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:

Hi David,

>>   https://fastmail.blog/2019/08/16/jmap-new-email-open-standard/
>>   https://jmap.io/
>
> They try to establish this for many years now, but I don't see it
> taking off. It surely has nice features for mobile users, but people
> use messengers there anyway. For Gnus, I don't think you'd notice much
> difference over IMAP.  But first they would have to get this into an
> actual popular IMAP server (meaning: Dovecot).  Until then, this is
> pretty much a Fastmail-only thing.

Cyrus 3.0.0 to 3.0.5 supported some earlier draft but the support was
removed with 3.0.6 because the spec evolved too rapidly for a stable
version.  But the docs say that the development version supports the
current JMAP version.

  https://cyrusimap.org/imap/developer/jmap.html

Bye,
Tassilo

Re: A new open email standard: https://jmap.io/

[David Engster]

>>>   https://fastmail.blog/2019/08/16/jmap-new-email-open-standard/
>>>   https://jmap.io/
>>
>> They try to establish this for many years now, but I don't see it
>> taking off. It surely has nice features for mobile users, but people
>> use messengers there anyway. For Gnus, I don't think you'd notice much
>> difference over IMAP.  But first they would have to get this into an
>> actual popular IMAP server (meaning: Dovecot).  Until then, this is
>> pretty much a Fastmail-only thing.
>
> Cyrus 3.0.0 to 3.0.5 supported some earlier draft but the support was
> removed with 3.0.6 because the spec evolved too rapidly for a stable
> version.  But the docs say that the development version supports the
> current JMAP version.
>
>   https://cyrusimap.org/imap/developer/jmap.html

I know. FastMail uses Cyrus and they have also pretty much adopted the
whole project since Carnegie Mellon Uni switched to Exchange and GMail,
so it's pretty much given that it always supports latest JMAP. But if
you need a pure IMAP server, Dovecot is usually the first choice
nowadays, so if they want JMAP to succeed, they *really* need to get
this in there. I know they're working on this, but I'm guessing it's not
easy getting code into Dovecot.

-David