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I've spent the last two years building a new email client

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Re: I've spent the last two years building a new email client

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It's unfortunate that this wasn't build with a cross-platform core, but native, first class UIs for each respective platform. Edit: I realized this was worded very badly. I’m saying I wish this was written with a cross platform core, and native, platform specific UIs for each respective platform. For example, MS Office is written this way.

He had 2 years not 5+

Re: I've spent the last two years building a new email client

#43

No offense but unless it’s a 1st party client email clients are something that is very hard to trust. Who controls your client has access to your inbox with most services even the few that have separate IMAP/POP3 passwords like Hushmail can be compromised through it. If your client also integrates with encryption or worse takes charge of it my encryption key is also now at risk. Lastly since email today is pure HTML…

Tust is everything.

What does it change if you have an c53 audit of Version 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 has malicious code?

Re: I've spent the last two years building a new email client

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post #2

It's unfortunate that this wasn't build with a cross-platform core, but native, first class UIs for each respective platform. Edit: I realized this was worded very badly. I’m saying I wish this was written with a cross platform core, and native, platform specific UIs for each respective platform. For example, MS Office is written this way.

?! I would've said the same thing with joy! From the title I was immediately hoping that this was not yet another bloated electron thing.

But how do you think this is bloat?

Re: I've spent the last two years building a new email client

#46

No offense but unless it’s a 1st party client email clients are something that is very hard to trust. Who controls your client has access to your inbox with most services even the few that have separate IMAP/POP3 passwords like Hushmail can be compromised through it. If your client also integrates with encryption or worse takes charge of it my encryption key is also now at risk. Lastly since email today is pure HTML…

No offense, but if everyone thinks like this we better not use email at all.

Re: I've spent the last two years building a new email client

#47

No offense but unless it’s a 1st party client email clients are something that is very hard to trust. Who controls your client has access to your inbox with most services even the few that have separate IMAP/POP3 passwords like Hushmail can be compromised through it. If your client also integrates with encryption or worse takes charge of it my encryption key is also now at risk. Lastly since email today is pure HTML…

From the landing page:

> Privacy & Security

> Total privacy - we do not have access to your email account, Ivelope only sends your email data and password between your computer and your email server.

Re: I've spent the last two years building a new email client

#48

Looks very interesting. I personally would appreciate knowing I am entering my email into a waiting list rather than getting access. Also, why does there need to be a waiting list - to help stem the flow of analytics? Honestly curious. I really want a good, modern email client and I hope this can be it.

The reason for having a waiting list is so that I can release it to a few people at a time. I don't want to release it to everyone at once, because if there is a large or annoying bug I haven't found. If I release it to a few people, let's say 50, only they will experience this possible bug and not everyone at once

Re: I've spent the last two years building a new email client

#49
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

On a desktop app, you can see what kind of request the program makes and which servers it contacts. With a webapp, you'll never know what the app does.

How so? It's quite simple to tell what a web app does in my understanding. Chrome has many good monitoring tools.

The webapp can send your data wherever once it has the data, chrome won't log http requests if they were made server to server etc
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