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The article explains the technical advantages of JMAP, but I'm not clear how (if at all) it benefits email users. Without clear end-user advantages its hard to
by andyjohnson0 4y ago
The article explains the technical advantages of JMAP, but I'm not clear how (if at all) it benefits email users. Without clear end-user advantages its hard to see why email providers would want to implement it when they already support just-good-enough IMAP.
- danielheath 4y agoKey things that are hard in IMAP and easy in JMAP are well summarized in this comment: https://lobste.rs/s/er97xr/so_when_did_pop_imap_become_legacy#c_bcye2y https://lobste.rs/s/er97xr/so_when_did_pop_imap_become_legac...
- andyjohnson0 4y agoGlobal search is clearly important. The other "hard thing" are a little... niche? AFAIK search in IMAP is folder-based, so you have to iterate over the folders, do multiple searches, and merge the results. Not elegant, and probably not fast, but it doesn't seem like a protocol killer to me.
- danielheath 4y agoOne persons 'niche' is anothers 'essential feature'. Fastmail are surely in a better position than you or I to figure out which kinds of searches are commonly performed!