Re: fetchmail and JMAP protocol

On 3/26/19, Ranjan Maitra <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Outlook's protocol that works with OAUTH2 OTP verification seems
>> > to come with e-mails downloaded in json format. Poking around brought me
>> > to the JMAP protocol. I was wondering if fetchmail can handle it, or if
>> > there are some other ways of processing mail extracted in json format

> JMAP is IETF protocol as per https://github.com/jmapio/jmap
> I did not see this as being a proprietary protocol.

https://jmap.io/


It seems any variety of "mail" protocols, ie general message
push / pull from servers or networks,  usable with
clients of various sorts, could be supported in some tool
where they are initially likely as contributed software modules
to a much more abstracted fetching ie messaging tool,
A few of those modules also being IMAP, POP, ... .
Fetchmail beginnings rooted in historical email
makes it not necessarily such a tool currently.

As with completely abstracting and splitting
out the config concepts of server from account,
protocol, poll functions, etc mentioned before...

There's probably no reason people could not
put together proposals for themselves to do the
work of adding and supporting new or existing open
message protocols into whatever more capable
fetching, and with JMAP even sending, framework
might be created.
Consideration also need given to if 'fetchmail' is a
right base for such an effort.

As to JMAP, some client / server tools seem
to be on an implementation path. On the user
facing services front...

- Timeframe till standard is usably stable and featured?
- Which / who are using it now until then?
- Which / who are declared and or expected to adopt it after?

And what proposals for contributing what JMAP and
related efforts and support into fetchmail are out there?