E-Mail as a protocol, service and concept came into existance before computers were even networked. By IT standards E-Mail is ancient. Clunky foundational protocols and mail-server and mail-account setups that are difficult and complicated to handle are the result. Redoing E-Mail or at least updating the available protocols for E-Mail has been long overdue.

Finally somebody took care of that problem a few years back, and the resulting new JMAP (JSON Meta Applikation Protocol) seems up for the task and looks like it’s slowly becoming the new standard single protocol for E-Mail. If you’re building anything new using E-Mail, JMAP should be your default method of handling things.