Announcing SwiftNIO IMAP

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As part of expanding the Swift on Server ecosystem, we’re thrilled to announce the release of a new IMAPv4 parser and encoder, SwiftNIO IMAP.

This package implements:

• Parsing IMAPv4 wire-format to type-safe Swift data structures
• Encoding these Swift data structures to the IMAPv4 wire format
• Extensive support for common IMAP extensions
• High performance
• Integration with SwiftNIO

Motivation

Email has been a indispensable part of the internet for over 40 years and is a ubiquitous part of many products and services today.

Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is the most widely used open standard to retrieve email messages. It has been around for multiple decades and has evolved substantially over the years through various RFCs.

Correctly parsing and encoding IMAP is notoriously difficult. SwiftNIO IMAP reduces this difficulty by handling many subtle details of...

Get the full details here: Swift.org - Announcing SwiftNIO IMAP