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solarkraft ◴[] No.45676603[source]
Stalwart is, from what I’ve read, an excellent JMAP server.

JMAP is, from what I’ve read, a great protocol for building an E-Mail (and now also others) client on top of.

Since I would like an innovative way to access my E-Mails, but do not want to self-host, I would find it interesting to use Stalwart as the server component of an E-Mail client: Data is somehow synced into Stalwart via the “ugly” protocols and I get a nice API to build an elegant client on top of.

My basic research shows that something like IMAP-IMAP sync seems to be a thing. Has anyone done something like this, perhaps even with Stalwart? (this of course grows in complexity for each new protocol to be proxied).

I believe having this kind of setup easily accessible could jumpstart a new generation of E-Mail clients on top of JMAP because it (relatively elegantly?) circumvents the chicken-egg problem by allowing all existing IMAP mailboxes to be accessed via JMAP.

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1. keeganpoppen ◴[] No.45676858[source]
i have also been pondering this for the exact same reason... unfortunately, i don't have much to show for said pondering... yet...