Re: getmail & JMAP

Saša Janiška <[email protected]> Sun, 7 Oct 2018 17:59:03 +0200

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On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 09:05:14 -0600
Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> wrote:

> It's interesting.  If it becomes widely deployed that would probably
> be a good thing; 

OK.

> I make no secret of my loathing for IMAP, which is a
> truly awful protocol.

:-)

> Not at all at the moment.  If in the future there are email service
> providers who only provide JMAP access, then perhaps getmail could be
> extended to support it 

OK.

> however, JMAP looks designed primarily for
> MUAs to use to modify the state of the user's mailbox on the server.

Yeah, that's something which I do not like.

> It's somewhat less relevant in the case of getmail, which just
> retrieves mail for a local process to deal with.

You're right. Thank you for your response.


Sincerely,
Gour

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There is no possibility of one's becoming a yogī, O Arjuna,
if one eats too much or eats too little, sleeps too much
or does not sleep enough.

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