Sunsetting Nylas Mail Development
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Sunsetting Nylas Mail Development
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Re: Sunsetting Nylas Mail Development
#2Glad the Nylas team is focusing. I really wanted to like the frontend client, but I stopped using it about a year ago due to reliability issues.
Mining organization data from email seems like a great opportunity. Context.io wasn't able to make it work, but Nylas looks a lot more capable.
Re: Sunsetting Nylas Mail Development
#3Glad the Nylas team is focusing. I really wanted to like the frontend client, but I stopped using it about a year ago due to reliability issues. Mining organization data from email seems like a great opportunity. Context.io wasn't able to make it work, but Nylas looks a lot more capable.
(disclaimer: I'm the business guy at Nylas)
Unlike Context.io, the Nylas APIs don't mine email organization data at all! We're not owned by a marketing parent company, and all our customer MSAs make it very clear that we have no rights to any of the email data passing through us.
Nylas is an infrastructure company, like Stripe or AWS, and we make money by building tools and making our customer's lives and products better, not by reselling user data.
Re: Sunsetting Nylas Mail Development
#4Glad the Nylas team is focusing. I really wanted to like the frontend client, but I stopped using it about a year ago due to reliability issues. Mining organization data from email seems like a great opportunity. Context.io wasn't able to make it work, but Nylas looks a lot more capable.
https://blog.context.io/ seems very much alive. Do you have any other information what they were not able to make work?
Re: Sunsetting Nylas Mail Development
#5As a user, I've been loving Nylas Mail/N1. I hope the project lives on in some usable form - the blog post mentioned Nylas Mail Lives and Mailspring, which I'll have to take a close look at.
(I came to Nylas after Dropbox finally killed off Mailbox. I seem to have a good track record of falling in love with desktop email clients which then die...)
Re: Sunsetting Nylas Mail Development
#6Glad the Nylas team is focusing. I really wanted to like the frontend client, but I stopped using it about a year ago due to reliability issues. Mining organization data from email seems like a great opportunity. Context.io wasn't able to make it work, but Nylas looks a lot more capable.
(disclaimer: I'm the business guy at Nylas) Unlike Context.io, the Nylas APIs don't mine email organization data at all! We're not owned by a marketing parent company, and all our customer MSAs make it very clear that we have no rights to any of the email data passing through us. Nylas is an infrastructure company, like Stripe or AWS, and we make money by building tools and making our customer's lives and products be…
It's excellent to hear of companies taking this position.
Re: Sunsetting Nylas Mail Development
#7As a user, I've been loving Nylas Mail/N1. I hope the project lives on in some usable form - the blog post mentioned Nylas Mail Lives and Mailspring, which I'll have to take a close look at. (I came to Nylas after Dropbox finally killed off Mailbox. I seem to have a good track record of falling in love with desktop email clients which then die...)
Hey thanks! I used to work on Nylas Mail at Nylas and I'm the author of the Mailspring fork.
It's definitely sad to see this post, but Nylas has remained committed to open source and I think they've done this right. Relicensing everything under MIT ensures the product will have a bright future, even though Nylas has better opportunities it needs to pursue for it's employees and investors.
Would love for you to check out Mailspring (http://getmailspring.com) when it launches this month. We always struggled to implement performant, battery-friendly mail sync in JavaScript, and Mailspring essentially "rebases" the entire JavaScript UI on top of a new C++ sync engine built on mailcore2. You get the flexibility of JavaScript + plugins + themes with a much lighter profile.
Re: Sunsetting Nylas Mail Development
#8As a user, I've been loving Nylas Mail/N1. I hope the project lives on in some usable form - the blog post mentioned Nylas Mail Lives and Mailspring, which I'll have to take a close look at. (I came to Nylas after Dropbox finally killed off Mailbox. I seem to have a good track record of falling in love with desktop email clients which then die...)
Hey thanks! I used to work on Nylas Mail at Nylas and I'm the author of the Mailspring fork. It's definitely sad to see this post, but Nylas has remained committed to open source and I think they've done this right. Relicensing everything under MIT ensures the product will have a bright future, even though Nylas has better opportunities it needs to pursue for it's employees and investors. Would love for you to check…
Where can we see the source and will the client have to phone home to you?
Re: Sunsetting Nylas Mail Development
#9I don't understand, what exactly are you sunsetting? N1? Or the service that synced mailboxes?
Re: Sunsetting Nylas Mail Development
#10Open sourcing everything? More like sunrising!
Thank you for doing that.