• sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al
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        6 months ago

        I was reading that page and was just getting more and more confused and then eventually I realised it’s an alternative to IMAP. Pretty cool.

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          6 months ago

          I didn’t know JMAP either. Apparently the authors found the complexity and stagnation of IMAP as well as inability to integrate with basic groupware such as CalDAV caused free e-mail clients to be dropped in favor of proprietary systems. Seems like a fair assessment and if JMAP solves that I’d be very pleased.

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        6 months ago

        Please correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t this allow one to represent virtually any resource as a mail inbox/outbox with access through a generic mail app?

        I’m working with a specialized healthcare company right now, and this looks like a way to represent patient treatments data as an intuitive timeline of messages. With a local offline cache in case of outages. Security of local workstations is a weak point of course, but when is it not…

        • dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          6 months ago

          Yes, but that is always possible with most protocols, including imap.

          Take a look a FUSE and you will see all the creative things people have done with filesystems. Or DNS, lots of fun things have been done with that also.