JMAP support in Dovecot

[Tanstaafl]

On Wed May 22 2019 05:44:59 GMT-0400 (Eastern Standard Time), Aki Tuomi
via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:
> 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.

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):

From: https://fastmail.blog/2018/12/27/jmap-is-on-the-home-straight/

"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.

So, maybe - hopefully - this might be some reasons to push that
development up some.

if not, its good to know that it is at least still on the roadmap.