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> I think that part actually works fairly well today (not optimally, but well enough in practice). I haven't done much with IMAP, but I did setup a watcher for
by jolmg 8y ago
> I think that part actually works fairly well today (not optimally, but well enough in practice).
I haven't done much with IMAP, but I did setup a watcher for my mailboxes that uses the IDLE extension. I consider it a flaw that I need to create a separate connection, each needing their own session, for each folder I want to watch simultaneously. Servers understandably limit the amount of simultaneous connections you can have, so that limits the amount of folders you can watch simultaneously.
I don't know if JMAP fixes that, and I don't know if I'd prefer JMAP over IMAP as a protocol, but there are things that could be better with IMAP.
> The part that really needs fixing is SMTP.
What's wrong with SMTP?
- hsk823 8y agoBeing unauthenticated as a default certainly doesn't jive with modern security practices.
- jolmg 8y agoSMTP is the protocol that's used to route email between servers. How is Fastmail supposed to authenticate with Gmail or Yahoo with Hotmail? Better yet, how is a new mail server in the internet supposed to authenticate with all existing mail servers? Really, authentication for all uses of SMTP doesn't make sense.
- closeparen 8y agoIf only there were infrastructure and standards for asserting ownership over domain names.
- crest 8y agoDo you really want to put the power to block mails into DNSSEC the PKI operators?