Nylas Mail is now free

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Post by jalada » Tue, Jan 17, 2017, 2:11 PM UTC

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Post by ocdtrekkie » Tue, Jan 17, 2017, 2:21 PM UTC

> Does Nylas Basic support all mail providers?

> Today’s release supports Gmail/G Suite, Office365 Exchange, Yahoo! Mail, iCloud, and FastMail. Full support for self-hosted Microsoft Exchange servers is coming soon.

I am a little curious why this is so limited. All of the above solutions support IMAP, so why is this so specific? I could understand if they're trying to support, say, Gmail-specific features of your inbox, but a provider like FastMail is pretty much entirely standards-compliant, AFAICT.

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Post by grinich » Tue, Jan 17, 2017, 2:25 PM UTC

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #2

> Does Nylas Basic support all mail providers? > Today’s release supports Gmail/G Suite, Office365 Exchange, Yahoo! Mail, iCloud, and FastMail. Full support for self-hosted Microsoft Exchange servers is coming soon. I am a little curious why this is so limited. All of the above solutions support IMAP, so why is this so specific? I could understand if they're trying to support, say, Gmail-specific features of your inb…

You actually can add any IMAP server. We just haven't tested all of them, so we're only officially supporting a few at launch.

Here's how to do it: http://imgur.com/a/WBdXe

(I work at Nylas.)

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Post by ilSignorCarlo » Tue, Jan 17, 2017, 2:28 PM UTC

I used Nylas for a while and really liked it, until they they forced everyone to pay $7 per month to use it.

Here's the original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11553738

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Post by janlukacs » Tue, Jan 17, 2017, 2:33 PM UTC

Does all email still go through their servers?

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Post by ocdtrekkie » Tue, Jan 17, 2017, 2:36 PM UTC

grinich wrote: post #3

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #2

> Does Nylas Basic support all mail providers? > Today’s release supports Gmail/G Suite, Office365 Exchange, Yahoo! Mail, iCloud, and FastMail. Full support for self-hosted Microsoft Exchange servers is coming soon. I am a little curious why this is so limited. All of the above solutions support IMAP, so why is this so specific? I could understand if they're trying to support, say, Gmail-specific features of your inb…

You actually can add any IMAP server. We just haven't tested all of them, so we're only officially supporting a few at launch. Here's how to do it: http://imgur.com/a/WBdXe (I work at Nylas.)

There's actually a surprising number of provider settings in here: https://github.com/nylas/N1/blob/master/internal_packages/on...

Though there's some odd duplication for FastMail from the last update, I am going to file an issue if I can't find an existing one. :D

And thanks for working on open source software!

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Post by lnx01 » Tue, Jan 17, 2017, 2:38 PM UTC

janlukacs wrote: post #5

Does all email still go through their servers?

Apparently on the basic version it connects directly to your mail servers without going through Nylas' cloud. But there are a couple of features which still require the cloud to funtion, snooze etc.

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Post by gnufied » Tue, Jan 17, 2017, 2:40 PM UTC

I really wanted an Email client for Linux which isn't power hungry but unfortunately last I tried Nylas - it was always top app in `powertop`. An always running app has to be low on power consumption IMO, but because so many apps are being built on top of webkit/electron most of them pretty much suck when it comes to battery usage.

Another case in point is slack app. On Linux, it is probably the worst app. :(

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Post by colinramsay » Tue, Jan 17, 2017, 2:43 PM UTC

I use Nylas but I recently had to move from a 2013 MBP to a 2008 MBP and it shows how unresponsive the UI is. I'd like to use something such as mutt but I find it very unfriendly.

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Post by OJFord » Tue, Jan 17, 2017, 2:44 PM UTC

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #2

> Does Nylas Basic support all mail providers? > Today’s release supports Gmail/G Suite, Office365 Exchange, Yahoo! Mail, iCloud, and FastMail. Full support for self-hosted Microsoft Exchange servers is coming soon. I am a little curious why this is so limited. All of the above solutions support IMAP, so why is this so specific? I could understand if they're trying to support, say, Gmail-specific features of your inb…

> All of the above solutions support IMAP

But I gather they're not using it with them:

> It’s now powered by a hybrid sync engine that connects directly to your mail provider (Gmail, Exchange, etc.)

The Gmail API, [0] for example, is presumably far preferable to using IMAP.

[0] - https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/v1/reference