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Ask HN: Anyone else want a better OS X Mail client?

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Re: Ask HN: Anyone else want a better OS X Mail client?

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Post by akvadrako »

bsg75 wrote: post #4

MailMate is so far the one I have stuck with: http://freron.com/

It's definitely the best for heavy users. I really only care about performance and Postbox, Mail.app, Thunderbird, Outlook and mutt were all too slow.

I haven't tried Mailbox.app, but it's got some weird Dropbox integration so I wouldn't bother.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else want a better OS X Mail client?

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Post by BreakoutList »

akg_67 wrote: post #9

What are the issues people mention about Mail.app? Are these issues the 'real' pain points, solution to which users are willing to pay? How much? I use Mail.app and feel there is no "painful" issue for which I will be willing to pay to be fixed. You can always find people who will complain about any product. But the strong enough pain for them to pay and switch is whole another ballgame. Most will shriek away as soon…

Heh. I don't want to solve it myself. I want someone to solve it. I will pay $50 for a bug-free version of the previous version of Mailbox.app, today.

Edit: Looks like Mailbox has fixed the app. Nice.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else want a better OS X Mail client?

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Post by rz2k »

I think there's a quasi-cynical opportunity in developing any category of product that is regularly acquired then quietly allowed to die. For example, it seems like not having a lot of people using a client like Sparrow was worth more to Google than people are willing to pay for an alternative to the browser-based client. Furthermore, because there are a lot of corner cases in IMAP that you must be sufficiently skilled to address, and users have high expectations about reliability, making a good enough client to gain traction is a good sign about your value as an engineer for the acquiring company.

Perhaps a great feature to make such a client's slow death through acquisition even more desirable would be seamless end-to-end encryption so that users' emails provided no marketing data.

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