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by jtmoulia 4380 days ago
Yup, IMAP is powerful, but it's gathered some baggage over the years.

Switchboard uses a simplified interface based on JMAP[1] for client's and workers, which it does proxy into IMAP commands. One of the conveniences of Switchboard is it manages the IMAP connections: restarting them as they fail and allowing concurrent access.

[1] http://jmap.io/