Proton Mail gets a desktop app for encrypted email and calendar

dtx1 wrote: post #3

miroljub wrote: post #2

Let's hope it's not just another Electron-based abomination.

Of course it is* *I'm writing this comment before looking it up because i am that sure.

Don't worry, they don't say it in the article.

But the "Screenshot" does sure look like one

Re: Proton Mail gets a desktop app for encrypted email and calendar

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Post by plehoux » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 1:59 PM UTC

miroljub wrote: post #2

Let's hope it's not just another Electron-based abomination.

CEO at Missive and proud developer of an electron based email client, I would love for you to try it and judge it's speed. It might change your opinion.

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Post by georgyo » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 2:00 PM UTC

unsupp0rted wrote: post #4

I wish Fastmail had a desktop app. Or a mobile app that works when offline, for that matter.

Fastmail has good imap and jmap support. If which there are a great many clients that work offline.

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Post by dangond » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 2:05 PM UTC

Out of curiosity, what makes people prefer desktop apps for mail over just visiting the browser version? The idea of downloading a desktop app for something I can do in the browser makes no sense to me. At least on mobile, the ergonomics of apps tend to make the experience better than the mobile-web version.

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Post by neogodless » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 2:07 PM UTC

dangond wrote: post #8

Out of curiosity, what makes people prefer desktop apps for mail over just visiting the browser version? The idea of downloading a desktop app for something I can do in the browser makes no sense to me. At least on mobile, the ergonomics of apps tend to make the experience better than the mobile-web version.

While the gap has closed over the years, with high quality web apps and the ability of the browser to send you notifications, I still prefer to use Thunderbird to check my multiple accounts, and only notify for my primary folder, while lots of relative junk gets filtered down to sub-folders, where I do not want notifications.

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Post by bravetraveler » Thu, Dec 14, 2023, 2:08 PM UTC

dangond wrote: post #8

Out of curiosity, what makes people prefer desktop apps for mail over just visiting the browser version? The idea of downloading a desktop app for something I can do in the browser makes no sense to me. At least on mobile, the ergonomics of apps tend to make the experience better than the mobile-web version.

I use a mail client for offline access, backups, and faster search

I stopped using Proton largely because the bridge was unreliable - this may have kept me around

My browser does too much already, too. I appreciate actual applications that have an identity beyond a favicon