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0 pointshnlmorg1y ago0 comments

I’m not exactly the biggest fan of JSON either but given the clusterfuck of established email technologies, moaning about JSON is a little hypocritical.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pot_calling_the_kettle_b...

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hyhconito1y ago

It's more: we have two clusterfucks now thus might as well use the one we know best.

At least no one tried to use YAML on the wire, so far anyway.

jeltz1y ago

And that one is JMAP. IMAP is such a huge clusterfuck it is almost impossible to beat it.

otabdeveloper41y ago

IMAP is simple and elegant and not a "clusterfuck" at all.

(Source: implemented both serverside and clientside IMAP.)

IMAP is basically a database query language and as such it works as it should.

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