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Old 24 Mar 2016, 05:11 AM   #3
Random832
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I guess my real question is, in the far-off future when JMAP is a "real" protocol (I assumed it was at least to the point where Fastmail was using it now), how are clients expected to use it? Part of that is my assumption that JMAP is actually meant to be a real protocol, i.e. something you could add to, say, Thunderbird. Is it just an architecture-piece for proprietary* clients?

A transport-agnostic protocol isn't a whole protocol, since at the end of the day the client has to be able to connect to the server

*In the sense that the client is tied to a specific service, and contains knowledge of how that service's particular transport works, even if its source is generally available to be adapted to other services
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