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This might be big, I was just done complaining about the user interface of the GMail web app. If this means that developers can now effectively create another interface on top of a real GMail API this has the potential to really change things. I can already envision several ways in how I could improve my inbox management and reduce the time spent sifting through emails.
I'd love to see granularity in what the API can access, for example, TripIt may request something like "Grant access to emails from the domain travelocity.com, usairways.com, etc.," and I can know with confidence that they will not have access to the rest of my inbox.
We (Streak, YCS11) have been using this API for a few days to build our email snoozing feature ( https://www.streak.com/email-snooze-in-gmail ). The API is really nice to use and makes interacting with Gmail way easier relative to IMAP. I'm surprised they don't recommend using this API to build full email clients. I fully expected that to be one of the core use cases. The reason its hard (currently) to build a mail c…
We (Streak, YCS11) have been using this API for a few days to build our email snoozing feature ( https://www.streak.com/email-snooze-in-gmail ). The API is really nice to use and makes interacting with Gmail way easier relative to IMAP. I'm surprised they don't recommend using this API to build full email clients. I fully expected that to be one of the core use cases. The reason its hard (currently) to build a mail c…
Nice, but I'm very reluctant to give any third-party access to my mailbox. Most sites I use let me reset my password by email, so this is like handing over the keys to the castle.
However - how many people trust our email to small web hosting companies? How much better is that?
For example - many of my clients use the mailbox provided by Webfaction who I'm sure are beyond reproach but do I trust them any more than I trust a well known SASS company that integrates using the GMail API?
Google has been adding lots of widgets to email recently, like RSVP on invitations, itinerary on flight booking emails, etc. These are pretty useful features and I believe a lot more are possible with the APIs being opened. However, I feel the access control is very coarse grained. For example, RSVP widget needs access to only event related emails and itinerary needs only travel booking emails, but the API spec does…
This might be big, I was just done complaining about the user interface of the GMail web app. If this means that developers can now effectively create another interface on top of a real GMail API this has the potential to really change things. I can already envision several ways in how I could improve my inbox management and reduce the time spent sifting through emails.
It would be sweet if email, in general, was just a nice RESTful API.
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