angry about gmail
Have I mentioned that I hate gmail? Their oauth login thing makes logging in with alternative clients a huge pain in the ass, and it's regular login requires a bunch of hoops to jump through and even then it barely works.
Really tired of this shit and that so many orgs require using it for "work email".
The calendar is also a pain.
People capitulating to megacorps ruining open protocols fills me with despair and is a recurring paint point.
angry about gmail
@mauve *pssst*
i tried out the ietf jmap standard using fastmail and it seems more straightforward than any email protocol i have seen.
this was a proof of concept, but the api calls below this line fetch my most recent ten emails: https://github.com/tylerchilds/braid-kit/blob/5a169461a217300dea09e620c42f30eef5c1f1a3/public/email.html#L475
if you clone the repo, you can see the beginning of a wizard flow than lands on a google inbox inspired interface 😈
angry about gmail
@mauve this is an outdated version, but in the same vein as their webmail client: https://github.com/jmapio/jmap-demo-webmail
looks like this would be the backend: https://github.com/jmapio/jmap-js
all the foss work would be in the jmap org on github: https://github.com/jmapio
disclosure, i haven’t played with either of those— i’ve just used my raw code from above with my api key from their paid service and that’s the extent, but seems promising.