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Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP Support

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Re: Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP Support

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This looks like a decent mail client and making PGP more accessible I think is an admirable goal but I wish designers would stop patting themselves on the back...

"Simple. Secure. Stunning." is right up there with all these "show hn" that start with "beautiful".

Let social proof speak for itself. Show a quote from a major publication calling you stunning. Don't call yourself stunning. I bet you it is more effective that way.

Edit: the thought occurred to me just now, imagine if in online dating profiles someone started their profile with a self-proclaimed "Handsome and sexy"... would you go out with that person? Then again, I haven't been d ating in 10 years, maybe it's changed.

Re: Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP Support

#6
Interested in the read tracking and in a nice email client that will help me get through my backlog. Installed and configured my main mail account.

Advanced account settings was prefilled with almost-right information, which legit helps, but the labels only appear when the fields are empty, so I had to delete the prefilled info to see which ones needed to be changed.

Waiting on the animation between messages got old halfway through the first time, so I looked around in preferences for a way to shorten or turn it off. No luck, but in toggling the option to display or not display the message pane, I ended up with a window that consisted of disconnected segments of the top of each of the three panes. Quit was necessary to restore.

Did a quick search to collect a bunch of github messages from one project and delete them. Seven threads from my inbox and one from my archive were included. Not what I meant, no obvious way to change, but oh well I can live with deleting that one too. Right pane showed eight threads, gave bulk option to delete. Deleted, but then the right pane remained, the search now showed more entries, seemingly including both the now-gone inbox entries plus all the messages I'd just trashed in the trash.

Processing a few more messages, I ended up with the message pane showing only a ~20 px sliver of each message. Scroll bar still behaved as though the whole message was visible. Quit was again required to fix.

I'm on the mailing list, so hopefully I'll hear about future bug fix releases, but the app's too buggy in five min of use to even think about making it a daily thing as is.

Re: Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP Support

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post #5

At this point, I'm just happy there is a new email client that isn't storing anything on the third party servers. Good for Canary and I'll give it a try.

Email client economics are tough, you need some sort of service-like revenue associated with it or you sell your customers data in order to have a sustainable business.

I hope canary has something non-evil figured out, the client looks nice.

Re: Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP Support

#8

Interested in the read tracking and in a nice email client that will help me get through my backlog. Installed and configured my main mail account. Advanced account settings was prefilled with almost-right information, which legit helps, but the labels only appear when the fields are empty, so I had to delete the prefilled info to see which ones needed to be changed. Waiting on the animation between messages got old…

> so I had to delete the prefilled info to see which ones needed to be changed.

Gah! What an anti-pattern!

Total OT sidebar, but UX has gone through so much regression in the last decade I'm starting to view it as confirmation of the cyclical theory of history: flat UI, tiny thin fonts, washed out colors, material design removing differences between tabs, labels, buttons and badges, etc.

Maybe it's just temporary insanity, but holy cow things have gotten bad.

Re: Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP Support

#10
post #5

At this point, I'm just happy there is a new email client that isn't storing anything on the third party servers. Good for Canary and I'll give it a try.

Does Spark store anything on 3rd party servers? I didn't think so.
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