Flipping through the documentation, the RESTful API seems to only allow for polling for new messages (deltas via the sync protocol[1]).
While I'm glad that there is a delta-API, I'm concerned that this doesn't support proper "push" notifications for new messages. This is a valuable feature of Exchange and IMAP[-IDLE](where supported).
I understand that the heterogeneity of these push protocols makes it difficult to expose a push API, but it seems an important feature of mail clients.
Similarly, it seems that REST is not quite the best protocol for the "push" piece of modern email. I suppose long-polling support on the Sync API would work fine, however.
Flipping through the documentation, the RESTful API seems to only allow for polling for new messages (deltas via the sync protocol[1]).
While I'm glad that there is a delta-API, I'm concerned that this doesn't support proper "push" notifications for new messages. This is a valuable feature of Exchange and IMAP[-IDLE](where supported).
I understand that the heterogeneity of these push protocols makes it difficult to expose a push API, but it seems an important feature of mail clients.
Similarly, it seems that REST is not quite the best protocol for the "push" piece of modern email. I suppose long-polling support on the Sync API would work fine, however.
[1]: https://www.inboxapp.com/docs/api#sync-protocol