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Nylas Mail is now free

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Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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post #8

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. :(

Slack is the worse offender on my 2011 MBP. I have to kill it all the time because of runaway resource usage.

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

#26
post #25

Wait, so Nylas was free, then it was paid and now it's free again? Did I understand correctly?

There's still a paid version (in fact I think this is a price bump?) - but there's now a free tier too.

Yeah, maybe if author would charge 7 bucks in total instead of 7 bucks per month he would not have this problem.

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

#27
post #14

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.

Spark and Polymail are two other options. I'm personally a fan of how easily it's to setup your own keyboard shortcuts in Spark.

Nylas has a keymaps.json (as well as the UI of course) which is a +1 in my book. Unfortunately other things missing from textual config, such as mail rules (filters).

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

#29
post #8

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. :(

The trouble isn't electron/webkit, it's the tonne of JavaScript frameworks that are used to emulate what HTTP already does very efficiently (pages, links, requests, responses, etc.).

One day someone will build a good Electron app.

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