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tjoff | 4 months ago

Because IMAP is horrible, it is another driving reason why we are moving towards the dystopian world of webmail.

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frumplestlatz|4 months ago

Horrible how, exactly?

People say things like that, and I wonder if I’ve just been living in a gilded tower of using Apple Mail with decent IMAP server implementations.

I’m also pretty familiar with the wire protocol and its implementation — it’s never struck me as particularly horrible.

A new protocol isn’t likely to solve the problem of poorly implemented clients and servers — e.g. Google doesn’t really care about good IMAP support, so they’re unlikely to care much about JMAP, either. They just want you to use their webapp.

isaachinman|4 months ago

Gilded tower? Are we living in separate universes?

Shameless plug for a client with true offline-first IMAP support:

https://marcoapp.io