is there a fastmail api?

Riuujin · 4 Dec 2015, 02:50 AM

I was wondering if there is an api which i can use to check the amount of unread mail. If so I might create a simple notification extension for chrome.

BritTim · 4 Dec 2015, 05:26 AM

Welcome to the forum!

In answer to your question, sort of. There is an old SOAP API that kind of works called the FastServices API. See https://blog.fastmail.com/2005/01/27...tservices-api/. Documentation, such as it is, is archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20070822...p/FastServices.

If you want to try to use it, prepare for a lot of frustration. For a start, the documentation is incomplete and outdated. It does still kind of work though. A tool called FastCheck uses it.

For now, if it was me and I was determined to bother, I would try to put something together based on IMAP IDLE.

Most likely (not talked about by Fastmail) within a year or two, there will be something better. Fastmail's backend is well along in moving to a new standard they are pushing called JMAP. See http://jmap.io/. I have looked at the specification, and it seems very sound. I think writing your own programs for limited query of the Fastmail server will be quite feasible.

Riuujin · 5 Dec 2015, 05:22 AM

thank you, I will look into it.

4 Dec 2015, 02:50 AM	#1
Riuujin Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2015 Posts: 2	is there a fastmail api? I was wondering if there is an api which i can use to check the amount of unread mail. If so I might create a simple notification extension for chrome.

4 Dec 2015, 05:26 AM	#2
BritTim The "e" in e-mail Join Date: May 2003 Location: mostly in Thailand Posts: 3,095	Welcome to the forum! In answer to your question, sort of. There is an old SOAP API that kind of works called the FastServices API. See https://blog.fastmail.com/2005/01/27...tservices-api/. Documentation, such as it is, is archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20070822...p/FastServices. If you want to try to use it, prepare for a lot of frustration. For a start, the documentation is incomplete and outdated. It does still kind of work though. A tool called FastCheck uses it. For now, if it was me and I was determined to bother, I would try to put something together based on IMAP IDLE. Most likely (not talked about by Fastmail) within a year or two, there will be something better. Fastmail's backend is well along in moving to a new standard they are pushing called JMAP. See http://jmap.io/. I have looked at the specification, and it seems very sound. I think writing your own programs for limited query of the Fastmail server will be quite feasible.

5 Dec 2015, 05:22 AM	#3
Riuujin Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2015 Posts: 2	thank you, I will look into it.