My company is looking to enhance its own internal software and we've been tasked with adding email fetching/storage/tagging/sending functionality to said application. Basically creating an email client that uses our gmail account.
After we got started with IMAP, it basically felt like we were rewriting gmail, so we started exploring the Gmail API. The problem is in the description of the API google says "Note: The Gmail API should not be used to replace IMAP for full-fledged email client access. Instead, see IMAP and SMTP." So we're kind of at a cross roads on which technology to use. It would be nice to have access to all the tools the gmail API gives you, but with our lack of expertise with IMAP, we're not sure what the pro's and cons of each integration method are. Which direction would you take? IMAP or Gmail API? What would be the pros and cons of each? Thanks. Justin Purdie VP of Development SkyVantage Corporation 5526 West 13400 South, Suite 207 Herriman, UT 84096 United States of America US Ph. +1-801-649-2925 ext. 305 Skype: skyvantage (calls only) ext. 305 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.skyvantage.com Join us on Facebook! www.facebook.com/skyvantage _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
