On 28 Dec 2018, at 6:56, Mike Brasch wrote:
Moin moin,
I've just been reading:
- https://fastmail.blog/2018/12/27/jmap-is-on-the-home-straight/
- https://jmap.io
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/jmap/about/
I asked for it long time ago. Maybe it's more interesting now?
Somewhat. At least it is probably at a technically stable point where
software developers are no longer chasing a moving target. IETF "Last
Call" isn't entirely a formality, but it is a strong sign that nothing
major is going to change before the RFCs get published in final form. I
strongly hope that it gets implemented more widely in servers and
clients. I'm not entirely convinced that JMAP is a compelling advance
for anyone but coders. On the other hand, the tendency of coders to burn
themselves out on the baroque edge and corner cases created by IMAP and
its many implementation variants trying to satisfy users conditioned to
expect 'enterprise-like' functionality in Internet email may be a good
enough excuse for simplifying email developers' work. If I had a
potentially usable JMAP-capable client, I'd probably stand up the JMAP
Proxy in front of my own servers to give it a try.
With that said, I HOPE Benny resists the urge to implement JMAP in
MailMate unless and until he has enough paying customers to delegate
work to another developer and has a more manageable list of pending bugs
and planned features. Maybe after 1.x is closed out and 2.0 is the real
release?
[Full disclosure: many years ago I had some minor and entirely friendly
professional interactions with Bron Gondwana, now CEO of FastMail and
JMAP evangelist, making me a bit less cynical than is my norm regarding
ideas he thinks are good...]
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