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gluon
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Inside Gluon, our new IMAP library
Check our blog to learn more: https://proton.me/blog/gluon-imap-library. You can peek into it yourself on our GitHub: https://github.com/ProtonMail/gluon.
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Bridge and Thunderbird Trash
They are going to replace go-imap with gluon. That's an effort which has been going on for quite a while.
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Proton Bridge: Message UIDs are not stable / possible data loss (deletion of wrong messages)
Hi all, we want to share more info about the reported issue with Proton Mail Bridge, our desktop IMAP/SMTP gateway to Proton Mail encrypted email. The fact that Bridge and its client can become desynchronized sporadically for some users is a high priority issue we have been working on. Bridge is open source, and as a result relies upon open-source components, and the root cause is an architectural issue in a library that Bridge uses to implement IMAP. When there are network issues, this library returns errors to email clients. Unfortunately, there are hundreds of email clients, and some email clients don’t handle errors properly, and this leads to desynchronization. Our error tracking shows this does not happen often (1-2% of Bridge users) and the symptom is usually incorrect display of messages or read/unread status which is fixed with an inbox resynchronization. There are cases where a combination of a desynchronized mailbox and a specific series of user actions can lead to accidental email deletion, but this is far rarer than desynchronization. Our implementation tries as hard as possible to avoid this. If you find you are missing an email, our implementation works around the issue by placing it in your All Mail folder, so please check there. If you believe you have an email that is accidentally deleted, please contact our support team and we will do our best to help you undelete it. As Bridge is open source, updates on this issue have always been publicly posted on GitHub. IMAP-compatible encryption is a very difficult task and Bridge must interface with many different email clients, most of which are not open-source making it almost impossible to address all cases where certain clients don’t do error handling properly. Addressing this issue at the source requires replacing the core IMAP library. Unfortunately, there is not exactly a large selection of open-source IMAP libraries to pick from. None in fact are sufficiently well maintained to ensure we don’t run into this issue again. And a commercial library does not work because of Proton’s open-source nature. Therefore, the solution is to build our own IMAP library called Gluon, which we have been focusing on since this issue was reported to us. You can follow the progress or participate in this open-source effort here: https://github.com/ProtonMail/gluon
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Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares
This is Bart, Proton CTO here. For clarity, the issue mentioned here only impacts Proton Mail Bridge, our desktop IMAP/SMTP gateway to Proton Mail encrypted email.
The fact that Bridge and its client can become desynchronized sporadically for some users is a high priority issue we have been working on. Bridge is open source, and as a result relies upon open-source components, and the root cause is an architectural issue in a library that Bridge uses to implement IMAP. When there are network issues, this library returns errors to email clients.
Unfortunately, there are hundreds of email clients, and some email clients don’t handle errors properly, and this leads to desynchronization.
Our error tracking shows this does not happen often (1-2% of Bridge users) and the symptom is usually incorrect display of messages or read/unread status which is fixed with an inbox resynchronization. There are cases where a combination of a desynchronized mailbox and a specific series of user actions can lead to accidental email deletion, but this is far rarer than desynchronization. Our implementation tries as hard as possible to avoid this. If you find you are missing an email, our implementation works around the issue by placing it in a users’ All Mail folder.
As Bridge is open source, updates on this issue have always been publicly posted on GitHub. Addressing this issue at the source requires replacing the core IMAP library. Unfortunately, there are no FOSS IMAP libraries that are sufficiently well maintained. Therefore, the solution is to build our own IMAP library called Gluon, which we have been focusing on since this issue was reported to us. You can follow the progress of this open-source project here: https://github.com/ProtonMail/gluon
We are not refusing to fix the problem. The only possible solution is writing a new open-source IMAP library which we can maintain ourselves to ensure this class of errors cannot occur again. We have doubled the size of the team working on this this year so it is a priority for us.
We’re confident that this addresses the main sources of desynchronization and will be available in the beta version of Bridge by the end of the year.
jmap
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Stalwart mail server (self-hosted all-in-one mail server) now as an admin webui
Only Stalwart supports JMAP, which imo is the future of mail/calendar/contacts client-server communication.
https://jmap.io/
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Show HN: Swift Mail. Fastmail's modern mail standard delivered natively on macOS
It's a reworked email protocol, created by fastmail. Basically email over json (send + receive) instead of imap+smtp.
https://jmap.io/
- FLaNK Stack 5-June-2023
- JMAP – a much needed modern email open standard
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Migrating to fastmail
Fastmail support IMAP and JMAP (RFC8620 see https://jmap.io/)
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Is there API for IMAP ?
Using jmap-perl to expose a JMAP interface for the IMAP server might be a solution. If you're unfamiliar with it, JMAP is like IMAP, but is based on HTTPS and JSON, making it easier to interface with.
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The Emacs Curse: When Everything Else Just Feels Inferior 😱🧙♂️
(If you want to "petition the powers that be", it would be convenient if Gmail and MS Exchange would support jmap :) )
What are some alternatives?
proton-bridge - Proton Mail Bridge application
ImapSync - Imapsync is an IMAP transfers tool. The purpose of imapsync is to migrate IMAP accounts or to backup IMAP accounts. IMAP is one of the three current standard protocols to access mailboxes, the two others are POP3 and HTTP with webmails, webmails are often tied to an IMAP server. Upstream website is
proton-bridge - ProtonMail Bridge application
docker-mbsync - A Docker container which runs the mbsync tool automatically to synchronize your email
go-imap - 📥 An IMAP library for clients and servers
mail-server - Secure & Modern All-in-One Mail Server (IMAP, JMAP, SMTP)
gpgmda - GPG encrypting MDA
AppFlowy - AppFlowy is an open-source alternative to Notion. You are in charge of your data and customizations. Built with Flutter and Rust.
john-carmack-plan-archive - Collection of John Carmack’s .plan files
obsidian-outliner - Work with your lists like in Workflowy or RoamResearch
notion-markdown-cms
msquic - Cross-platform, C implementation of the IETF QUIC protocol, exposed to C, C++, C# and Rust.