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Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

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Re: Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

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Default permissions are the ability erase everything. It actually requires work to remove those permissions. Probably just your exchange admin doesnt have an incentive to change the settings.

> Default permissions are the ability erase everything. This can never go wrong.

thankfully it's not true

Re: Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

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That really looks sweet! But glancing over the FAQ, it's not clear to me if it doesn't do IMAP&SMTP with the big players, or if it doesn't feature IMAP&SMTP at all?

N1 supports connecting to all the major email providers, as well as pretty much every obscure IMAP server run by your ISP! What's pointed out in the FAQ is just that it uses a cloud service component (also open source! http://github.com/nylas/sync-engine ) that we developed first to make it easier to build clients.

Looks really nice, but what's this creepy right sidebar (which obviously lists wrongly guessed pseudo-contacts)?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bv82he6wlcea3d2/Screenshot%202016-...

Looks like it cannot be disabled?

Re: Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

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So mixed messages again. Is 'Inbox' the next-gen Gmail interface or a hobby project that will get closed down in a year? Momentum has slowed and I've become so dependent on it's workflow I'd be gutted if this was the case. However - I don't believe Google will maintain two email clients in perpetuity. On past experience - they'll fold the functionality of one into the other - partially and imperfectly leaving users i…

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Re: Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

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Seems pretty straight forward - pretend you signed up for a Google account and also had that account connect to your other email addresses (Like people have been doing for years, and arguably one of gmail's best features) Now just rebrand it without the visible requirement of having a Google Account. I wouldn't be surprised if you're still getting a Google account in the process, it's just not advertised.

When you go through the sign up flow you can select whether you want to Gmailify your address into an existing or a new Google account. We make it very explicit that all your mails are being copied into Google servers. By the way, while Gmail always has offered ways to just "import" your messages from a third party address, with Gmailify you get a full two way sync, so you can e.g. keep using the Yahoo UI and your ch…

I do not seem to have the option to gmailify my address. Is the feature restricted to specific providers? If yes, are there any plans to support Office365 addresses?

Re: Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

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N1 supports connecting to all the major email providers, as well as pretty much every obscure IMAP server run by your ISP! What's pointed out in the FAQ is just that it uses a cloud service component (also open source! http://github.com/nylas/sync-engine ) that we developed first to make it easier to build clients.

Looks really nice, but what's this creepy right sidebar (which obviously lists wrongly guessed pseudo-contacts)? https://www.dropbox.com/s/bv82he6wlcea3d2/Screenshot%202016-... Looks like it cannot be disabled?

You can click the button in the top right to close it.

Right now that data comes from FullContact. If it's wrong, you can write them to dispute/update it. https://support.fullcontact.com/knowledgebase/articles/47266...

Re: Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

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Seems pretty straight forward - pretend you signed up for a Google account and also had that account connect to your other email addresses (Like people have been doing for years, and arguably one of gmail's best features) Now just rebrand it without the visible requirement of having a Google Account. I wouldn't be surprised if you're still getting a Google account in the process, it's just not advertised.

When you go through the sign up flow you can select whether you want to Gmailify your address into an existing or a new Google account. We make it very explicit that all your mails are being copied into Google servers. By the way, while Gmail always has offered ways to just "import" your messages from a third party address, with Gmailify you get a full two way sync, so you can e.g. keep using the Yahoo UI and your ch…

Can I gmailify my other gmail accounts into my main one and get two way sync?

Re: Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

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So mixed messages again. Is 'Inbox' the next-gen Gmail interface or a hobby project that will get closed down in a year? Momentum has slowed and I've become so dependent on it's workflow I'd be gutted if this was the case. However - I don't believe Google will maintain two email clients in perpetuity. On past experience - they'll fold the functionality of one into the other - partially and imperfectly leaving users i…

> Momentum has slowed

Has it really? I get update notifications literally every day, sometimes multiple times a day, so it seems like development is still very, very active.

> Is 'Inbox' the next-gen Gmail interface

I feel like Inbox and Gmail are separate long-term interfaces working on the same data set that serve completely different sets of users.

Re: Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address

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That really looks sweet! But glancing over the FAQ, it's not clear to me if it doesn't do IMAP&SMTP with the big players, or if it doesn't feature IMAP&SMTP at all?

N1 supports connecting to all the major email providers, as well as pretty much every obscure IMAP server run by your ISP! What's pointed out in the FAQ is just that it uses a cloud service component (also open source! http://github.com/nylas/sync-engine ) that we developed first to make it easier to build clients.

Warning to anyone trying to self-host:

Despite N1 calling their cloud engine "open source", the authentication part isn’t – and isn’t included.

If you set up the open source variant yourself, you’ll end up without any authentication.

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