The specifications for JMAP have been published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), marking a big victory for email tools now and in the future.
JSON Meta Application Protocol Specification (JMAP)
JMAP is the open protocol that replaces IMAP (and CardDAV and CalDAV). It’s faster, simpler, more powerful, and built for how email works today.
Email explained from first principles
Modern email is a patchwork of protocols and extensions. Here is one article to understand them all.
Email Doesn't Suck. It's Email Clients That Need Improving
Don't hate the technology, hate the implementation.
Why kernel development still uses email
In a world full of fancy development tools and sites, the kernel project's dependence on email [...]
asutherland/glodastrophe
desktop web mail client for the development of the gaia-email-libs-and-more backend
The Golden Age Of Open Protocols - AVC
Protocols are a geeky topic. It’s way more interesting to talk about applications. People will go on and on about why they like gmail or some other email application. But not a lot of people get excited about SMTP and IMAP which are the underlying email protocols that allow the gmail application to talk to […]
The trouble with text-only email
Mozilla's manifesto commits the organization to a number of principles, including support for i [...]
Use plain text email
There are two main types of emails on the internet: plain text and HTML. Many people, particularly in technical communities, strongly prefer or even require the use of plain text email from participants. However, your mail client may not have it set up by default. We'll help you get it configured, and introduce you to the norms and conventions of plain text email.
Build Your Own Browser Tools Without a Backend - J Lopes
Many free online tools want your email first. Most of what they do can happen in the browser instead, and this is how.
Re-thinking electronic mail
There are many problems with the existing Internet email system, such as spam, scam, surveillance, insecurity, centralization, and complexity. The problems are starting to outweigh the benefits of the system. Fixing the problems by evolving the current system seems overwhelmingly difficult. This essay examines some solutions to the problems on the assumption that a completely new, parallel email system can be built.
better-email | sTeam Public
What i find interesting about this article is not the realization that MPI is like email, but the reverse, that human collaboration using messages is like MPI. The suggestion to use SMTP as a transport for things much more complex than emails is something worth looking at. It relates to my belief that the instant messaging difference does not come from the new protocols like XMPP for jabber, but from the new client interface that facilitates short messages in a conversational style. SMTP is equally (if not more) capable of transporting these messages. Sure, SMTP is not designed for "instant" messaging. but todays use of SMTP where my local SMTP server talks directly to your SMTP server, makes email is just as instant.
Open Responses
This is the standardization effort I've most wanted in the world of LLMs: a vendor-neutral specification for the JSON API that clients can use to talk to hosted LLMs. Open …
Send emails for free in SvelteKit w/ Tailwind CSS
How It All Started: Pre-W3C Web and Internet Background
1971: Ray Tomlinson of BBN creates email program to send messages across a distributed network.
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I think you’ll find that building on Solid is challenging and it’s missing many things. I’ve been looking at JMAP jmap.io for the core if contacts, calendars, emails, notes, todos are the base. And yeah @joodaloop.com your visuals look great.
