Ask HN: Anybody want a hosted email API?

Its really hard to set up an email host, I have tried doing it myself and it was really too crazy to set up. I had a problem where I was serving email across about 40 domains and I needed something that would work for everyones different DNS settings.

So we outsourced, got it done but its still very clunky, its hard to administrate and monitor and I couldn't build on top of it.

I was thinking of maybe building an API service where people can build their own email hosts really easily without buying hardware, getting a system admin etc.

If you dont know, IMAP and POP are so hard to work with programmatically but if you had an API where you just ask for /users/134234/mailbox and got all your data, you pretty much just cut out 2 months of programming.

Plus: People could build apps on top, like shopify Plus: We wont have to rely on google anymore! Plus: Google doesn't seem to let you do this or anything similar, I might be mistaken though.

Just to clarify, this is not a transactional email service, its a fully hosted imap server.

Thanks!