Thanks for chiming in Bron!
I'm very interested in JMAP as you can see, but I'm also very
curious - do you have any blog pages dedicated to the user
experience vs standard IMAP? How it differs - and most importantly
if it is truly better, and if so, how and why?
I'd also love to read about actual user experiences - how about a
collection of comments from your users?
Thanks again,
Charles
p.s. Even though I've always hosted my own, I'm very tempted to
sign up for a paid account to see for myself.
On Tue May 28 2019 03:49:25 GMT-0400 (Eastern Standard Time), Bron
Gondwana via dovecot
<dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
On Wed, May 22, 2019, at 23:43,
Tanstaafl via dovecot wrote:
On Wed May 22 2019 05:44:59
GMT-0400 (Eastern Standard Time), Aki Tuomi
> Unfortunately we have not
been able to work on this much, but also the
> JMAP spec was until very
recently still being worked. We have open
> dialogue with the
Thunderbird people, they haven't so far indicated any
> pressing need for JMAP in
Dovecot.
>
> This said, JMAP is still
very much in our roadmap. Perhaps just not as
> close as I initially
thought.
Obviously I'd love to help out in
any way possible here! We're very keen to see JMAP support in
Dovecot to encourage others to move towards it as well.
Thanks Aki - no pressing need
because of the old chicken/egg problem I
guess...
That said, a few tidbits...
The Thunderbird Devs are using
Topicbox for discussing Thunderbird UI
development, and Topicbox is
built directly on top of JMAP for the email
integration (I'm not sure they
even knew this until I told them yesterday):
"But enough about the software,
how about the experience! When we
created our brand new Topicbox
product, we built directly on top of JMAP
for the email. We also used
JMAP-inspired APIs for the rest of the
product experience, so
Topicbox’s early users have been on JMAP for over
a year now."
Lastly, Fastmail is now rolling
it out - 30% of their userbase is on
JMAP, and all new users are
automatically on it. Cyrus also provides
experimental JMAP support in
their development snapshots.
Actually, 99% of our user base has
been on JMAP for about 4 months now! The one remaining percent
was users with the old version of our mobile apps, and they're
being cut off next month.
As for JMAP mail and JMAP core -
they're currently with the RFC editor for the final round of
edits - they should have assigned RFC numbers in the next few
weeks I would imagine. There will be some minor editorial
polish, but the way it works is entirely stable now, there won't
be more changes.
We're planning to have full
support for everything in those specs into Cyrus IMAP version
3.2 as well. Right now there's a couple of gaps that we either
don't use at FastMail or are papering around with our perl
middleware. You can see the remaining tasks here as we
progress:
Cheers,
Bron.