Solution for IMAP Headaches Out of Beta

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Flagged. Looks like link bait to me. The real announcement is apparently here: http://blog.context.io/2011/12/context-io-v2-0-out-of-beta-p...

It looks cute, but the obvious problem it will have competing with IMAP is the lack of a free implementation. This isn't software, it's a for-pay email service with an apparently interesting web API on the front.

Not sure how this counts as bait? It's coverage of the announcement, and naturally that was also covered on our company blog? We do have a free offer, listed on our pricing page: http://context.io/pricing

Don't sweat it. Hacker News audience loves to flag things if it doesn't 100% relate to their world.

Readers here won't see the correlation of all the research I did for this post that included FTP, WebSockets and beyond. Because they'll all be separate stories.

For the record I wrote the story because it struck a cord in my research. :)

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