> 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

> 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.