MBOX-Line: From koug at intracom.gr  Fri May 27 01:53:40 2011
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: John Kougoulos <koug@intracom.gr>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:46 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] History question.
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On Fri, 27 May 2011, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> I've noticed there are many people who want web 2.0 kind of interface to 
> emails (xml/ajax/dunno), and I've been thinking maybe I might just as 
> well do something like that. I'm sure the protocol will suck, but if it 
> gets us better email clients maybe it's a good thing overall. (And why 
> aren't they just using IMAP? Because they're scared of even trying to 
> use it. Hmm. IMAP over XML maybe?..)
>

Communigate has done something similar, see:
http://www.communigate.com/cgatepro/XMLAPI.html#Mailbox


Regards,
John

