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Post by treehau5 »

frik wrote: post #131
timdorr wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since those are accomplished via a tracking pixel in the email and you need to serve that image from a public server, then yes, you'll need a cloud service to run that. As stated before, you can choose to run that server yourself if you don't trust Nylas with that kind of data.

Neither MS Outlook nor GMail use a tracking pixel. Such pixel are only used by newsletter or shaddy spam senders.

Tracking pixels are ubiquitous, and used in virtually almost every situation where you want to know if a person opened your email, which equates to virtually all ecommerce in my experience.

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Post by jyrkesh »

grinich wrote: post #16
lnx01 wrote: post #13

What happened to Linux support? I'm sure I installed it a while back using a deb package downloaded from their site?

Coming soon! We just didn't have enough time to QA it. Should be ready in a couple of weeks. (Windows too)

I was a bit bummed to not see Windows support either...especially when there's a screenshot showing how to install on Windows on the download page. I registered for an account thinking that an auto-download had already started, so I was extra disappointed by a "Coming soon" prompt. Just felt a little bait-and-switch-y.

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Post by allover »

nottorp wrote: post #124
lj3 wrote: post #95

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Javascript gets used everywhere because it successfully commoditized programming. It requires very little knowledge to get it to work, so anybody can pick it up without much effort. For businesses, this means an endless supply of cheap labor. Most people here on HN and elsewhere believe this is a good thing. It furthers their dreams of programming becoming a basic literacy, like english and math. Keep in mind I don't…

Reading "ElectronJS" is when i decided not to try this app. I don't need websites masquerading as desktop apps thank you.

That seems like a very irrational reason for not using an app.

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Post by iancarroll »

hota_mazi wrote: post #216
timdorr wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since those are accomplished via a tracking pixel in the email and you need to serve that image from a public server, then yes, you'll need a cloud service to run that. As stated before, you can choose to run that server yourself if you don't trust Nylas with that kind of data.

So this won't work with emails coming from Gmail (and probably other providers) since these services cache these images on their server as soon as they receive them (and not when recipients open them) precisely to defeat this kind of tracking. And of course, a lot of email clients only open such images on demand anyway.

I don't believe this is correct. Gmail will only request an image to proxy once you've opened the email, according to MailChimp, so this would only prevent tracking multiple opens.

http://blog.mailchimp.com/how-gmails-image-caching-affects-o...

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Post by jpalomaki »

tracker1 wrote: post #197
thatcat wrote: post #178

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Which client blocks remote images by default? Is it a cli or gui?

Gemail, Outlook.com/hotmail, thunderbird and outlook all block images, unless whitelisted... Now, there may be other providers/clients that don't, but the above accounts for a significant number of users (if not most western mail users).

"When you get a message that has a picture in it, you see the picture automatically. "

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/145919?co=GENIE.Platf...

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Post by hendersoon »

criddell wrote: post #172
Nadya wrote: post #159

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It's been over 1 year since a blog post on the Thunderbird blog [0]. Is there any possibility for an update? Maybe something like "All the cool things we worked on in 2016?" (E: I realize 'developer' does not necessarily mean 'part of the Mozilla team developing it/in charge of the blog' but you may have better contact with someone who can get this done than I have. :] ) It was to my understanding that development, o…

Are there new features that you would like to see? For me, I would be super happy if the feature set of Thunderbird were frozen and future updates only fixed bugs and improved performance.

Yes, absolutely. Multiline thread lists in particular.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213945

This bug has been open for ~14 YEARS. Thunderbird not being actively developed is not exactly a recent development.

Reading through this thread I see tons of great MacOS mail clients, but very few Linux and essentially zero Windows. That's why I still use Thunderbird myself-- nothing better has ever come out.

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