http API for IMAP

[Phillip Odam]

A HTTP API for IMAP and for that matter, POP3 and SMTP is exactly what we
built where I work.

For anyone wonder why build such a thing? A simplified interface is an
exceptionally powerful tool. Many of our clients have encountered issues
constructing multipart http requests so if that’s an issue, good luck
getting IMAP to work. Since multipart turns out to be such an issue we’ve
turned out support for a variety of uploads including (completely
non-standard) where the request body is just the file content.

We’ve built our API in Java and as such have simply used the JavaMail API.
Admittedly though the plan is to get off this design since when there’s 10s
of thousands messages in an IMAP maildir folder the index can grow to an
unmanageable size.

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 2:59 AM Thomas Güttler via dovecot <
dovecot at dovecot.org> wrote:

>
>
> Am 13.11.19 um 17:21 schrieb Ralph Seichter via dovecot:
> > * Thomas Güttler via dovecot:
> >
> >> Is there a way to access mails in dovecot via https?
> >
> > Why on earth would that be beneficial?
> >
> >    "The Internet Message Access Protocol, Version 4rev1 (IMAP4rev1)
> >     allows a client to access and manipulate electronic mail messages
> >     on a server." (RFC 3501)
> >
> > Putting it bluntly: Learn to use the protocol specifically designed for
> > the task at hand, not a protocol with different design goals that you
> > happen to know better.
>
> Stateless, http and URLs are the future. JavaScript running on in browser
> or
> mobile phone can't connect to IMAP/SMTP.
>
> AFAIK you can't sent a link/URL to a mail on a shared folder to a friend.
> Like "Hi  bob, she loves me. See this message from here https:/...../"
>
> Regards,
>    Thomas Güttler
>
>
>
>
> --
> Thomas Guettler http://www.thomas-guettler.de/
> I am looking for feedback:
> https://github.com/guettli/programming-guidelines
>
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