[yogo]

It would be sweet if email, in general, was just a nice RESTful API.

[eterps]

That's a really old idea that never took off:

http://web.archive.org/web/20120421075522/http://www.prescod...

[yogo]

It seems like it would take a really big, promoted initiative with major players behind it to make a shift from IMAP, but it's good to know that other people have thought about it (your comment and its siblings).

[kurt_]

It's not REST but it's an HTTP API proposal: http://jmap.io/

[toomuchtodo]

http://context.io/