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The Mail Pilot Public Beta

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Re: The Mail Pilot Public Beta

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post #18

I paid $60 to try it out. Not worth it right now. It might, might be worth it when the desktop app is out. I wish I didn't fork over the money.

Upvoted. Sorry to hear about your buyer's remorse, but thanks for paying it and posting your thoughts. Anything more specific? Likes and dislikes?

The web UI was slow and I didn't realize it was web-only until I bought it.

Can I get a refund?

Re: The Mail Pilot Public Beta

#32

I appreciate that someone is making an email app for power users. It does a lot of the things I am currently forced to hack onto Gmail's priority inbox (I leave items I need to revisit in my inbox, archive "done" tasks, and star items I want to revisit in the distant future). On the other hand, I have grown so accustomed to Gmail's conversation view that there is no way I can give it up, even for a really good servic…

"It's a tough natural language processing task"

It doesn't seem to be. For most part, it's the same e-mail headers that every other e-mail client uses to show threads: http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html

Re: The Mail Pilot Public Beta

#33
post #3

From the about page: Email is in need of a fresh start. No one wakes up in the morning and thinks, “I can’t wait to check my email!” Am I the only person who has no problem managing their email? I'm a software developer and have 4 email accounts that I check regularly all from the same Thunderbird email client. I have filters and folders for mailinglists. I have different accounts for different personas (personal, wo…

I don't know much about this project in particular but wouldn't the ability to have a web based client instead of a desktop app like Thunderbird or Outlook be useful? The ability to see all my mail from the browser on my many devices could be good.
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