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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) What's JMAP? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago (2 children) https://jmap.io/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) I was reading that page and was just getting more and more confused and then eventually I realised it's an alternative to IMAP. Pretty cool. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago I didn’t know JMAP either. Apparently the authors found the complexity and stagnation of IMAP as well as inability to integrate with basic groupware such as CalDAV caused free e-mail clients to be dropped in favor of proprietary systems. Seems like a fair assessment and if JMAP solves that I’d be very pleased. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Slotos@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Please correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t this allow one to represent virtually any resource as a mail inbox/outbox with access through a generic mail app? I’m working with a specialized healthcare company right now, and this looks like a way to represent patient treatments data as an intuitive timeline of messages. With a local offline cache in case of outages. Security of local workstations is a weak point of course, but when is it not… permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago Yes, but that is always possible with most protocols, including imap. Take a look a FUSE and you will see all the creative things people have done with filesystems. Or DNS, lots of fun things have been done with that also. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago (2 children) https://jmap.io/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) I was reading that page and was just getting more and more confused and then eventually I realised it's an alternative to IMAP. Pretty cool. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago I didn’t know JMAP either. Apparently the authors found the complexity and stagnation of IMAP as well as inability to integrate with basic groupware such as CalDAV caused free e-mail clients to be dropped in favor of proprietary systems. Seems like a fair assessment and if JMAP solves that I’d be very pleased. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Slotos@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Please correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t this allow one to represent virtually any resource as a mail inbox/outbox with access through a generic mail app? I’m working with a specialized healthcare company right now, and this looks like a way to represent patient treatments data as an intuitive timeline of messages. With a local offline cache in case of outages. Security of local workstations is a weak point of course, but when is it not… permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago Yes, but that is always possible with most protocols, including imap. Take a look a FUSE and you will see all the creative things people have done with filesystems. Or DNS, lots of fun things have been done with that also. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) I was reading that page and was just getting more and more confused and then eventually I realised it's an alternative to IMAP. Pretty cool. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago I didn’t know JMAP either. Apparently the authors found the complexity and stagnation of IMAP as well as inability to integrate with basic groupware such as CalDAV caused free e-mail clients to be dropped in favor of proprietary systems. Seems like a fair assessment and if JMAP solves that I’d be very pleased. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago I didn’t know JMAP either. Apparently the authors found the complexity and stagnation of IMAP as well as inability to integrate with basic groupware such as CalDAV caused free e-mail clients to be dropped in favor of proprietary systems. Seems like a fair assessment and if JMAP solves that I’d be very pleased. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Please correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t this allow one to represent virtually any resource as a mail inbox/outbox with access through a generic mail app? I’m working with a specialized healthcare company right now, and this looks like a way to represent patient treatments data as an intuitive timeline of messages. With a local offline cache in case of outages. Security of local workstations is a weak point of course, but when is it not… permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago Yes, but that is always possible with most protocols, including imap. Take a look a FUSE and you will see all the creative things people have done with filesystems. Or DNS, lots of fun things have been done with that also. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago Yes, but that is always possible with most protocols, including imap. Take a look a FUSE and you will see all the creative things people have done with filesystems. Or DNS, lots of fun things have been done with that also. permalink fedilink source parent