I had similar issues where I wanted to remove IMAP complexity from client app, so I created a daemon proxy that sits between client and an IMAP server and “tran

I had similar issues where I wanted to remove IMAP complexity from client app, so I created a daemon proxy that sits between client and an IMAP server and “translates” REST API requests to IMAP commands: https://github.com/andris9/imapapi https://github.com/andris9/imapapi