Devs understand http and json way better than imap and http can support modern security protocols like oidc which standards imap doesn’t support which can make using foss email in a corporate environment
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knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I’m confused at what problem this is trying to solve.
tiny@midwest.social 8 months ago
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 8 months ago
IMAP is a mess. None of the major email services or clients properly implement the protocol.
Also some common operations (such as finding out if you have any new emails) are really slow. It can literally take ten seconds just to check if there’s any mail and that’s if there are no new messages. When there are messages it takes much longer.
It’s not slow because the servers are slow, it’s slow because IMAP sucks. Too many requests and the requests are not really in a format that works well for the actual database format used by clients and servers.
JMAP fixes all of those issues. It’s still not perfect, I think a perfect protocol would use Activity Streams, but it’s definitely the best (open) email protocol available right now.
dgriffith@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I have my own IMAP server (Dovecot)with 20 years of messages on it. It’s on a linode instance in Hong Kong, I’m in Australia.
When I open my Thunderbird on my laptop, it takes less than a second to authenticate and grab a dozen headers. If I pop open the Gmail app on my phone and select that account, again, it connects and refreshes in the same amount of time. Manually doing the drag-down-to-refresh motion gives me one spin of the spinner at the top of the page, possibly 1.5 seconds.
So my question to you is, what’s wrong with your IMAP server?