At the same time, I have to worry: SMTP is forever, but I'm not so sure that IMAP is forever.
Email is increasingly becoming a fragmented oligopoly, and the major players are promoting their own alternative protocols. IMAP is becoming a very optional legacy feature.
If the success of this project required additional integrations with EAS and Google's mail APIs, would you do the work or reject the idea on principle?
> SMTP is forever, but I'm not so sure that IMAP is forever
Indeed. I was surprised to see that Tutanota, a German privacy-oriented e-mail provider, only provides access via their web front-end. They don't support IMAP because according to them, they couldn't provide end-to-end encryption in combination with full-text search.
At the same time, I have to worry: SMTP is forever, but I'm not so sure that IMAP is forever.
Email is increasingly becoming a fragmented oligopoly, and the major players are promoting their own alternative protocols. IMAP is becoming a very optional legacy feature.
If the success of this project required additional integrations with EAS and Google's mail APIs, would you do the work or reject the idea on principle?