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This is super clever, and I hope this takes off. At the same time, I have to worry: SMTP is forever, but I'm not so sure that IMAP is forever. Email is increa

by m0dest 8y ago

This is super clever, and I hope this takes off. At the same time, I have to worry: SMTP is forever, but I'm not so sure that IMAP is forever. Email is increasingly becoming a fragmented oligopoly, and the major players are promoting their own alternative protocols. IMAP is becoming a very optional legacy feature. If the success of this project required additional integrations with EAS and Google's mail APIs, would you do the work or reject the idea on principle?

cerberusss 8y ago
> SMTP is forever, but I'm not so sure that IMAP is forever Indeed. I was surprised to see that Tutanota, a German privacy-oriented e-mail provider, only provides access via their web front-end. They don't support IMAP because according to them, they couldn't provide end-to-end encryption in combination with full-text search.