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email is a simple textual protocol. FastMail is not offering an alternative to that, but an "alternative to proprietary email APIs that only work with Gmail".
by einpoklum 3y ago
email is a simple textual protocol. FastMail is not offering an alternative to that, but an "alternative to proprietary email APIs that only work with Gmail".
Well, I don't use GMail (and neither should you! All your email is mined for advertising and shared occasionally with the US government.) - so it's not clear to me why I need an alternative to that stuff.
- csb6 3y ago> so it's not clear to me why I need an alternative to that stuff. It seems like you don't need it. However, a lot of people access their email across multiple devices and want everything to be kept in sync/efficient to fetch. Currently IMAP is the standard for this, but JMAP is attempting to provide a less complicated replacement.
- jeltz 3y agoNothing about IMAP is simple. JMAP was created partially due to IMAP being so complicated to implement and use.