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Originally Posted by hadaso
FastMail's backend is JMAP which is a standards track internet protocol. That's the protocol their web client and phone app use to communicate with their servers. It seems unlikely that after developing the protocol and going through the process of having it accepted by the IETF and published as a standards track RFC they would abandon it. And they always (as in the past 22 years) have supported IMAP. |
Very interesting. That's certainly a stronger API guaranttee. Still, there doesn't seem to be many other JMAP clients or servers, none of which is seeing serious use. This is mostly as a validation of Fastmail's implementation against their own spec.
This raises the question of why a copy of the old web client isn't just kept around somewhere, if they don't intend to change the protocol.
I get weird results with IMAP, depending on the client. For example, archived e-mails show up, likely because the concept of archiving isn't built into IMAP.