JMAP – a better way to email

Post by brerlapn » Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 7:44 PM UTC

veb wrote: post #48

dannysu wrote: post #28

Great job guys! Things like this together with CalDAV and CardDAV are reasons why I pay you guys for service. I just tried the following experiments with my Gmail and FastMail account. There's a reason why FastMail just feels faster! Try this: 1) While having the Gmail iOS app open, mark an email as read on the web 2) See how long it takes for Gmail to reflect the change 3) Now try with FastMail iOS app, see that it'…

Thank you for this comment. I do wonder why they simply didn't say this at the beginning of the article. I understood what they were up to purely because I'm a technical guy, but still I didn't want to actually have to watch the video -- namely because I'm deaf, and far too often there's no captions to explain what's going on so I prefer to read (and so do people at work, school, no sound etc), and it takes a lot les…

Post by cmder » Wed, Dec 24, 2014, 2:33 AM UTC

brerlapn wrote: post #111

veb wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for this comment. I do wonder why they simply didn't say this at the beginning of the article. I understood what they were up to purely because I'm a technical guy, but still I didn't want to actually have to watch the video -- namely because I'm deaf, and far too often there's no captions to explain what's going on so I prefer to read (and so do people at work, school, no sound etc), and it takes a lot les…

Their email sync is definitely superior to Google Apps, and now that they're adding DAV support the only thing really holding me back from switching my personal domain email over to Fastmail is email tagging. Gmail is, as far as I can tell, the only show in town for having email tags that sync across the server and client (unless you're in Exchange, but that's suboptimal for my personal use), and that's how I do pseu…

Post by gecko » Wed, Dec 24, 2014, 8:19 PM UTC

SwellJoe wrote: post #39

iwantagrinder wrote: post #33

I' m interested in this from a security perspective. What does this new protocol offer in terms of better control around what makes it to the inbox? Would IMAP>JMAP translation before hitting the user give us better ability to filter out malicious items/spam?

I think the only thing this particular protocol should be concerned with is reliably providing a method for communicating between client and server. Most spam and malicious mail filtering should happen as early in the process as possible, hopefully during the initial connection. There is a a protocol named Sieve ( http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5228.txt ) which provides for delivery stage filtering rules. It is similar i…