Dnia 16.12.2019 o godz. 17:45:03 Brandon Long pisze: > > (and I think there is > > absolutely no doubt that for professional use *any* email client - even > > many years old Outlook Express ;) - works better than Gmail's web > > interface). > > Consider doubt expressed.
:)) Well, maybe my case is specific, but I could quote here many use cases that happen to me literally countless times, that I can do very quickly in Outlook and I either couldn't do at all or it will be much more complicated, required a lot of clicking and took more time in Gmail's web interface. But I don't think it's worth to waste list members' time on reading that :). I would note only one crucial thing, without which it's impossible for me to use email: being able to instantly scroll through all messages in my inbox (no matter how many there are) and visually identify the message I'm looking for. Search feature won't help me, because I don't know *exactly* any search term I could use in a query, but I know for sure that I will instantly recognize the needed message once I see it, because I remember all the broad context (which includes pretty much everything outside of email itself :)) related to it. > For one, Google already maintains internal systems for translating IMAP to > the internal APIs, why would they > attempt to duplicate that effort? Also, the challenge of mapping IMAP to > Gmail's mailstore model is complicated, > why have two different versions (or N versions given the long tail of > software updates). [...] > If you wanted something, you'd probably want a proxy, something that speaks > enough IMAP to do LOGIN/AUTHENTICATE, then re-login to > Gmail with OAUTHBEARER, and then just be a pass through. We do something > similar for the reverse proxy for IMAP at Gmail, though again, > not really code that can be shared... though maybe someday someone will > write an Envoy module for that. You could probably write > something like that in a couple hundred lines of code. I was talking specifically about the case when the domain admin has disabled IMAP completely (they claim IMAP on a mobile device is insecure in general - it is possible somehow to bypass any local authentication and access email by anyone who gets hold of the device that has IMAP configured. I can't verify these claims). In that case G Suite Sync remains the only way to access. That's why I thought about moving IMAP to internal APIs translation to client side (similarly to G Suite Sync). But I understand if you say that you have no resources to do that or consider that not worth doing. -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa r...@rafa.eu.org -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub." _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
