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Show HN: BAREmail – minimalist Gmail client for bad WiFi

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Post by Virgo_matt »

I've been frustrated one too many times by terrible airplane wifi and not being able to load Gmail or Superhuman when all I want to do is get a few simple text-only emails out the door.

These clients have become pretty bloated with the assumption you've always got great bandwidth.

So I vibe coded BAREMAIL. It's open source, has no backend, and you can just set it up for yourself. Takes ~3 mins to setup API access via Google Cloud Platform (thanks for making this not super easy Google!)

I tried to maintain nice design and some important keyboard shortcuts without getting to overBEARing.

Show HN: BAREmail – minimalist Gmail client for bad WiFi
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Post by binaryturtle »

rep_lodsb wrote: post #6

Dedicated mail clients have existed for a lot longer than GMail has, work with any service using the POP3 or IMAP protocol, and don't run inside a web browser.

I recall we could dial up a super slow connection over telephone lines, get all our mails into such client in less than 4 minutes over said slow line, just to dial off again.¹ Afterwards we would read all our mails offline with all the time in the world, carefully crafting replies and put those into an "Outgoing" folder for the next time we could dial up a connection again (usually the next day). :)

¹) back then you paid Internet by the minute, or in case of the Deutsche Telekom it was a 4 minute tact in the evening, so you had to wait until after 21:00 to get the cheaper prices.

Re: Show HN: BAREmail – minimalist Gmail client for bad WiFi

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Post by tiberious726 »

ambicapter wrote: post #7
kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #4

In a better world we'd still be using a common protocol to interact with mail submission/delivery agents.

Email is not a common protocol?

Random web apps are not. Imap pop and smtp don't sanely support mfa, so the insurance industry is slowly killing them off
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