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Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Post by ralfn »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Gmail does something more interesting. It shows the image by default if the url is not unique, or the image is an attachment. It also uses googles servers to download and cache the image when receiving it.

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Post by Fnoord »

grinich wrote: post #21

Hey HN-- I'm the author of this post. Feel free to post questions! We are a very small team building this app. Hopefully you can focus on what's new/good and not what is left to do! :) If you find bugs, please post them here: https://github.com/nylas/n1/issues/

First of all thank you for making Nylas Mail, keeping it both free and open source. It takes courage to have such a free client competing with your commercial product. Also, thanks for developing the backend within Nylas Mail so a user can easily run the client without depending on a backend with SMTP/IMAP credentials hosted within the USA.

Have you considered an iOS or Android version client? Why?

Is the backend within Nylas Mail still in Python? Isn't this inefficient, performance wise?

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Post by artursapek »

jejones3141 wrote: post #210
artursapek wrote: post #75

I open the page and have no idea what Nylas is. I click on the logo and I'm taken to the blog home page, where 60% of the screen is the Nylas logo with no subheader telling me what it is. I click on it again and it just refreshes the blog index. No link to nylas.com. How do so many people make the same mistake?

Heck, I clicked thinking maybe "Nylas Mail" was the name of some political prisoner.

hahahaha

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Post by jamesgeck0 »

karim wrote: post #146
maglavaitss wrote: post #127

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How about not using your servers for anything?

Unfortunately, we have to use an intermediate server to use Google OAuth.

If a malicious party successfully attacked the Nylas auth servers, how much of my email data would they be able to get? All of it?

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Post by esamy »

I actually really like it. It's funny how many Electron apps I have been using lately: - Visual Studio Code - Hyper Terminal - Nylas Mail - Slack - Whatsapp Desktop - ...

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Post by jcranmer »

hendersoon wrote: post #227
criddell wrote: post #172

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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.

The reason for the lack of implementation has very little to do with a fault on the side of Thunderbird. It's been blocked on Firefox people accepting the changes in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441414 (which they finally categorically refused to do a few years ago).

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Post by sachinag »

hendersoon wrote: post #227
criddell wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

We really hope that Nylas Mail will be your cross-platform email app then. Being build on Electron allows us to support all three major platforms and we are 100% committed to it. Nylas Pro (formerly N1) already supports all three and Nylas Mail should be there in a couple of weeks, if 'e0m is to be trusted. :)

(I work at Nylas.)

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Post by sachinag »

carsongross wrote: post #20

I have a lot of sympathy for companies trying to make decent email apps. The economics are just awful.

Thanks! Thankfully we have both the Nylas Pro offering and the Nylas Cloud APIs as revenue streams. (Seriously, if you're integrating with email, check out the Nylas Cloud APIs: https://nylas.com/cloud)

(I work at Nylas.)

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Post by newsat13 »

karim wrote: post #169
skierscott wrote: post #140

I debated switching but the lack of IMAP support in the free version turned me away. That's the only feature I want Nylas Pro and it's not worth $12/mo.

Nylas Basic supports generic IMAP accounts. We don't show them in the list of supported providers for QA reasons but you can still add such an account like this: https://imgur.com/a/WBdXe (By the way, feel free to open a Github issue if you're encountering problems syncing your IMAP account: https://github.com/nylas/N1/issues/ )

"QA reasons"? What is that supposed mean?
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