The Email Provider Google Doesn't Want You to Know About (Fastmail Interview)
Techlore Talks brings you in-depth conversations with the experts at the forefront of digital rights, privacy and security.
Ricardo Signes, Chief Engineer at Fastmail, explains why Gmail's email experience has become increasingly fragmented, and what it would take to actually fix the decades-old IMAP protocol that powers most of the internet. We dive deep into JMAP (the modern replacement Gmail won't adopt), privacy-by-design vs. encryption, and the hidden trade-offs between convenience and security that no one talks about. If you've noticed your email client feeling broken, this interview reveals why.
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Episode Sources
• Fastmail: https://fastmail.com/
• Fastmail Values Statement: https://fastmail.com/about/values
• Cyrus IMAP/JMAP Server (open source): https://www.cyrusimap.org/
• JMAP Standard (RFC 8620): https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8620
• Web Push Standard (RFC 8030): https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8030
• Signal (for encrypted messaging): https://signal.org
• Fastmail Data Transparency Report: https://fastmail.com/about/transparency
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