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Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP Support

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Re: Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP Support

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Post by lobster_johnson »

SnowingXIV wrote: post #30
lobster_johnson wrote: post #26

I keep trying these (Canary, Polymail, Spark, Airmail), and they all disappoint in some way, and I always end up going back to trusty old Apple Mail. One big point for me: Except for Airmail, none of the new "minimalist" mail apps do plaintext. They all force you to send as HTML. I would love for "rich" email to work, but it's not nice the way current clients do it. In particular, I think it's incredibly presumptuous…

I feel like you're me. I've the exact same experiences and I keep trying something else but they fall flat and often miss some basic (important) features. Always going back to Apple mail.

Heh. Did you try Airmail? That's the only one that I liked.

The only reason I'm not using it today is that I was using the beta, and at one point they did a lot of frequent bugfix releases, and each new release started to require that you set up all your settings (mail accounts etc.) from scratch. I got tired of it and abandoned the thing.

I'm sure it's better now, I just haven't felt like going through all the steps again yet. Airmail does plaintext email, too.

Re: Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP Support

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Post by mablap »

lobster_johnson wrote: post #26

I keep trying these (Canary, Polymail, Spark, Airmail), and they all disappoint in some way, and I always end up going back to trusty old Apple Mail. One big point for me: Except for Airmail, none of the new "minimalist" mail apps do plaintext. They all force you to send as HTML. I would love for "rich" email to work, but it's not nice the way current clients do it. In particular, I think it's incredibly presumptuous…

Hey, I know someone working on a plaintext email service which should be encrypted by default, without attachments. I can post to HN if/when it's public.

Re: Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP Support

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Post by lobster_johnson »

mablap wrote: post #34
lobster_johnson wrote: post #26

I keep trying these (Canary, Polymail, Spark, Airmail), and they all disappoint in some way, and I always end up going back to trusty old Apple Mail. One big point for me: Except for Airmail, none of the new "minimalist" mail apps do plaintext. They all force you to send as HTML. I would love for "rich" email to work, but it's not nice the way current clients do it. In particular, I think it's incredibly presumptuous…

Hey, I know someone working on a plaintext email service which should be encrypted by default, without attachments. I can post to HN if/when it's public.

What is a "plaintext email service"? Is it a native Mac/iOS app?

Re: Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP Support

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Post by ubernostrum »

lobster_johnson wrote: post #26

I keep trying these (Canary, Polymail, Spark, Airmail), and they all disappoint in some way, and I always end up going back to trusty old Apple Mail. One big point for me: Except for Airmail, none of the new "minimalist" mail apps do plaintext. They all force you to send as HTML. I would love for "rich" email to work, but it's not nice the way current clients do it. In particular, I think it's incredibly presumptuous…

I keep coming back to Postbox. The underlying engine is a bit more reliable, the PGP support is a bit better, and it's still a nice-to-use Mac app.

Re: Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP Support

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Post by whorleater »

ubernostrum wrote: post #38
lobster_johnson wrote: post #26

I keep trying these (Canary, Polymail, Spark, Airmail), and they all disappoint in some way, and I always end up going back to trusty old Apple Mail. One big point for me: Except for Airmail, none of the new "minimalist" mail apps do plaintext. They all force you to send as HTML. I would love for "rich" email to work, but it's not nice the way current clients do it. In particular, I think it's incredibly presumptuous…

I keep coming back to Postbox. The underlying engine is a bit more reliable, the PGP support is a bit better, and it's still a nice-to-use Mac app.

Mailmate for me. It was good when it had that dumb brown icon, it's even better now

Re: Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP Support

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Post by cormacrelf »

mikhailt wrote: post #20
cormacrelf wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does Spark store anything on 3rd party servers? I didn't think so.

Yes, they do. It's why I don't use them. Source: https://sparkmailapp.com/privacy > Accounts are added to Spark through OAuth where possible. Where OAuth is not supported we keep your account username and password on our secure servers. We then use the authorization provided to download your emails to our virtual servers and push to your device. We use Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure to store your data. Apar…

I may be wrong, but that seems like the only way to provide push notifications. I guess that's the trade-off.
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