Fastmail's JMAP now IETF standard

pjwalsh · 17 Aug 2019, 10:50 PM

fastmail.blog/2019/08/16/jmap-new-email-open-standard

The specifications for JMAP Email have been published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), marking a big victory for email tools now and in the future.

Fastmail engineers have been working for the past five years to bring JMAP technology to developers and customers. We’re proud to announce that RFC 8620, published on July 18th, and RFC 8621, published on August 13th, have introduced JMAP to the world!
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TenFour · 26 Aug 2019, 08:24 PM

Sounds great, but is there any noticeable improvement in the real world? In my totally unscientific comparisons it seems Gmail is the fastest and most reliable syncing, assuming you use the Gmail web interface and Gmail app on your phone, with everything else I've tried lagging behind and having more glitches.

17 Aug 2019, 10:50 PM	#1
pjwalsh Essential Contributor Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 312	Fastmail's JMAP now IETF standard fastmail.blog/2019/08/16/jmap-new-email-open-standard The specifications for JMAP Email have been published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), marking a big victory for email tools now and in the future. Fastmail engineers have been working for the past five years to bring JMAP technology to developers and customers. We’re proud to announce that RFC 8620, published on July 18th, and RFC 8621, published on August 13th, have introduced JMAP to the world! ...

26 Aug 2019, 08:24 PM	#2
TenFour Master of the @ Join Date: Feb 2017 Location: USA Posts: 1,721	Sounds great, but is there any noticeable improvement in the real world? In my totally unscientific comparisons it seems Gmail is the fastest and most reliable syncing, assuming you use the Gmail web interface and Gmail app on your phone, with everything else I've tried lagging behind and having more glitches.