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node-imap
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mscdex / node-imap

node-imap

An IMAP client module for node.js.

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What it is

An IMAP client module for node.js.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:59:53 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-08-09 00:25:31 UTC to 2023-10-29 08:38:36 UTC.

012018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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jivings·Aug 17, 2019
It will be interesting to see how this develops. I've spent the last month implementing and testing IMAP support for my app [1]. It has... not been very fun. Before we were limited to providers with a REST API, so implementing IMAP should in theory allow us to support a much wider range of email servers with a much lower support burden. Although the protocol spec is tight, it seems like some providers randomly bug out or hang [2], respond with custom error messages, offer bespoke functionality [3], or generally don't comply with the spec in breaking ways [4]. As a result I'm more worried about this going forward than I had hoped. I'll now also happily support anything that can help modernize email, so I'll apply to the developer program and will be watching JMAP closely. [1]: https://leavemealone.app/ [2]: Yahoo Mail always down (https://
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downdetector.com/status/yahoo-mail) [3]: https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/imap-extensions [4]: https://github.com/mscdex/node-imap/issues/775
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