> Average people don't write or read emails anymore outside of some work settings but even then its usually Slack or MS Teams.
Do others believe/experience this?
I ask because this sounds like a very Bay Area comment.
Do others believe/experience this?
I ask because this sounds like a very Bay Area comment.
The IMAP spec is poor; it's ambiguous and unclear. The only way to build a reliable client is to test interworking against as many IMAP servers as you can find. A better protocol would be a good thing.
The SMTP spec is NOT poor. There's no need to replace SMTP. It works fine.
It's some time since I read an explanation of JMAP (with the article doesn't provide). As far as I'm aware, it provides roughly the same service, but using HTTP and JSON. I'm not a supporter of the "replace everything with JSON" movement; I don't see the point.
I'm not that keen on the "replace everything with HTTP" movement either; if you piggy-back your new protocol on an existing protocol, there's a risk that your new application will start dragging the underlying standard along with it, to the detriment of the original application the underlying protocol was designed for. I.e., it would be regrettable if JMAP resulted in pressure on the HTTP standard to start including features motivated by the requirements of mail retrieval.
Email is for significant communications.
Outside of work, I'm using daily for things like booking bands, talking to strata, etc.
While email in a lot of large companies might tend to be becoming a one-way distribution system; it is still vibrant and heavily used in smaller enterprises.
And that’s just internally. How do you handle stuff that also requires external contributors?
Across countries everyone uses a different messenger app. For some whatsapp, other LINE, etc. Email is faster to make sure you reach them all.
Side Note: My wife's work went all in on MS Teams. They held multiple trainings and kept showing how it could handle all the functionality of email. You could schedule appointments and even share file..... Six months later everyone still uses email and MS Teams is barely used at all.... email just works.
From my end it looks like the "no one uses email anymore" is just marketing hype.
I don't think many companies operate this way. Any formal things, e.g. regulation, finance, HR, will likely use email much more. And talking to a third party company, which some people will talk to 200 of in a year, will all be email, at least to start with.
No. This doesn't even come close to representing my real-world experience.