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Re:Open-source client scaffolds and API pricing by IgorPartola on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @12:26PM (#8395670)
ITTT type applications could also benefit from this. Year ago I wrote a script that would send me a digest every morning that would include things like a list of cron jobs that ran last night. To do that I had the cron jobs email a specific mailbox as the last step, and had my script connect via IMAP to check them.

Having said that, IMAP libraries are good enough to not have to pay for a wrapper when using most email providers.

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Re:Open-source client scaffolds and API pricing by grinich on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @01:27PM (#8396158)
(I work at Inbox.)

    IMAP libraries are good enough to not have to pay for 
    a wrapper when using most email providers
I found this actually not to be true when building my own stuff. Although IMAP is a "standard," the various different extensions and quirks mean you need to essentially build for each provider initially.

There's also a lot of stuff in Inbox API does that's not available in IMAP. Like the files endpoint[0], or threads as a first-class object[1].

Plus, you don't need to worry about MIME or character encodings with Inbox. The reason we don't great email tools is that they're hard to build.

[0] https://www.inboxapp.com/docs/api#files

[1] https://www.inboxapp.com/docs/api#threads

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Re:Open-source client scaffolds and API pricing by toomuchtodo on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @12:57PM (#8395947)
Or Use Gmail's REST API if you use Gmail/Google Apps:

https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/

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Re:Open-source client scaffolds and API pricing by grinich on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @01:35PM (#8396234)
The Gmail API is great, but if you're building a real app that needs more compatibility, Inbox is a much better fit.

https://www.inboxapp.com/features

Plus, the Inbox sync engine is open source.

https://github.com/inboxapp/inbox

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