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Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

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Post by cj »

famousactress wrote: post #7
ja2ke wrote: post #6

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Same. I don't like each and every proposed solution that all the recent email clients have, but I live a life which, like it or not, involves a hell of a lot of email. So against all odds, seeing people trying to seriously tackle email from different angles is exciting.

I had a long conversation with a friend over lunch once where we both started by imagining a severely improved client, and eventually concluded that once you had traction with that the real benefits would come from a severely improved protocol. A lot of what makes email suck seems pretty baked into it historically.

Yeah, I agree. We came to a similar conclusion and that's definitely one of our long term goals.

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

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Post by derwildemomo »

Why are you only supporting GMail? I mean, basically IMAP should do it, right? Considering the recent drop of "don't be evil", I'm seriously thinking about returning to self-hosted email and it would be a shame if such a hopefully great service wouldn't work with that..

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

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Post by tinco »

cj wrote: post #9
famousactress wrote: post #5

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Neat. Glad there are still people not treating email as a solved problem. I tossed my address in for an invite.. Meanwhile.. Is there a security whitepaper or writeup somewhere? Handing over the keys to your email account isn't something I'm eager to do without some confidence in your product :) [Edit] Also... please paste the "if sender == 'pg@ycombinator.com':" condition that I want to believe is in your codebase.

Security is one of our top concerns, and we're looking into different ways to make it as airtight as possible. We'll have more info on security before we launch. At the moment, we're integrating through GMail through their API, so you can revoke access at any time, and we never see your password.

Hey, GMail doesn't have a public API does it? Could you tell us a bit about how you integrate with gmail, I thought they kept it pretty locked down?

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

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Post by famousactress »

tinco wrote: post #13
cj wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Security is one of our top concerns, and we're looking into different ways to make it as airtight as possible. We'll have more info on security before we launch. At the moment, we're integrating through GMail through their API, so you can revoke access at any time, and we never see your password.

Hey, GMail doesn't have a public API does it? Could you tell us a bit about how you integrate with gmail, I thought they kept it pretty locked down?

You mean other than SMTP or POP? Those are both definitely public APIs.

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

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Post by overshard »

I've personally fixed many issues with email sorting myself with Gmail filters and so forth but it would be nice if I didn't have to have these filters and my client did it magically.

I hope it keeps my Google address book and my ability to send from a selection email addresses I own. Losing those would be a deal breaker.

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

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Post by cj »

derwildemomo wrote: post #12

Why are you only supporting GMail? I mean, basically IMAP should do it, right? Considering the recent drop of "don't be evil", I'm seriously thinking about returning to self-hosted email and it would be a shame if such a hopefully great service wouldn't work with that..

We're limiting to GMail (including google app accounts) so we can focus on nailing the interface and auto-categorization of email. We plan to add support for other providers and possibly self-hosted in the future.

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

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Post by cj »

overshard wrote: post #15

I've personally fixed many issues with email sorting myself with Gmail filters and so forth but it would be nice if I didn't have to have these filters and my client did it magically. I hope it keeps my Google address book and my ability to send from a selection email addresses I own. Losing those would be a deal breaker.

Glider will pull in your contacts and address book, and other similar data to make the transition viable. Definitely let us know if there are other features you rely on so we can work on implementing them.

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

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Post by spindritf »

famousactress wrote: post #14
tinco wrote: post #13

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Hey, GMail doesn't have a public API does it? Could you tell us a bit about how you integrate with gmail, I thought they kept it pretty locked down?

You mean other than SMTP or POP? Those are both definitely public APIs.

And you can set separate passwords for various applications if you enable two-factor authorization.

Re: Show HN: Glider, a better email client

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Post by rcthompson »

famousactress wrote: post #14
tinco wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, GMail doesn't have a public API does it? Could you tell us a bit about how you integrate with gmail, I thought they kept it pretty locked down?

You mean other than SMTP or POP? Those are both definitely public APIs.

Those also require your password, as far as I'm aware.
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