What do you hate about email? • Hacker News Board

Re: What do you hate about email?

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Post by RomaTesla » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 12:51 AM UTC

ddingus wrote: post #10

RomaTesla wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awesome, great feedback! Highly appreciated :)

Looking to move off gmail. Conversation view and killer search also make great sense. If free, show me a nice add; otherwise, I am happy to buy. Bonus for long term, like 2 year service pricing advantages. Email is not a thing I want to think about much. Just works, just use Good luck, have fun!

Thanks for the ideas! The pricing expectations are good to hear. We're planning on going with the freemium strategy, so there will be a version of an app for everyone. If you'd like to stay updated, here's a link to our website: http://juicymail.co. Feel free to sign up or ask anything else that's on your mind.

Regards, Roman

Re: What do you hate about email?

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Post by zlynx » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 1:02 AM UTC

RomaTesla wrote: post #9

zlynx wrote: post #8

I like Thunderbird and Mutt. If your system can't handle and categorize IMAP folders of 50,000 messages and 500 new emails per day, don't bother on my account. Have good GPG support. Search is important. My cyrus imap server can find good search results in a couple of seconds out of 15 GB of email. You'd have to at least match that. Make sure I can send messages in plain text with formatting that is exactly how I wro…

Great feedback, thank you! Which OS do you use? Are most of those 500 emails promotional, or do you communicate via email a lot? Thanks in advance!

I use Linux, Windows and Android.

Mailing lists. Then probably promotional. Notifications from things like Facebook, LiveJournal, Patreon, various web forums, etc. Then probably status reports from various scripts. The least amount of email is from people I actually talk to.

Re: What do you hate about email?

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Post by brigandish » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 9:42 AM UTC

The ability to encrypt messages that's easy enough that non tech professionals can use it - or even tech professionals.

I'd like to be able to read mails simply by sorting them into filesystem folders and reading them like text files. The need to understand mbox and mdir and emix or whatever other formats are out there is annoying. I want to be able to read them with or without an app, and for different apps to read from the same data without reorganising it. Why should I have 3 different stores of the same emails on my laptop because I installed 3 different mail clients?

If you're really coming up with a whole new system then clarify your terms - what's the different between an MTA or and MRU or an MDA… I remember physics lectures easier than this.

I could go on all day. Good luck, I genuinely hope you manage it.