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Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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It's incredibly common to not have a link to their homepage—I have no idea why.

Some SEO probably decided it was better not to have a blog link back to the home page, and that it was OK for user experience to be sacrificed.

I think it's usually due to limitations/default settings of blog software, which is usually not tightly integrated with the corporate site.

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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post #131

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Since those are accomplished via a tracking pixel in the email and you need to serve that image from a public server, then yes, you'll need a cloud service to run that. As stated before, you can choose to run that server yourself if you don't trust Nylas with that kind of data.

Neither MS Outlook nor GMail use a tracking pixel. Such pixel are only used by newsletter or shaddy spam senders.

There are other mail clients that use tracking pixels, like Polymail and Canary.

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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I had the exact same experience. I see this sort of issue commonly. Surprising companies don't just link you back to their homepage when they promote their product with a blog. Seems like an obvious thing to do.

It's incredibly common to not have a link to their homepage—I have no idea why.

It's a medium blog. They don't allow you to add external links anywhere outside of a post. I suppose you could create a new post, add links in that post, and then add that link to the nav of the blog.

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Sylpheed? http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ screenshots here: http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/screenshot.html

GTK still looks that bad? That is absolutely horrendous.

I personally vastly prefer that kind of aesthetic to the "modern", flat, web-inspired UIs that waste too much space.

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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Is there a build available which doesn't require users to sign up for a Nylas ID? The support page states that "If you’re using N1 against our open source sync engine, you’ll still need to create a Nylas ID." Given the privacy policy says that Nylas shares information with third parties and that they can "make a copy of the entire contents of the applicable email inbox, calendar, and contact book", it doesn't feel li…

Nylas privacy policy ( https://nylas.com/privacy-policy/ ) is the single reason why I don't use it.

(puts Stallman's hat on) This is not free as in freedom.

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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post #108

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Hey – I'm an engineer at Nylas. To add to what you said, the newly released Basic edition does all email syncing client-side, and uses our servers for minimal things (i.e: auth).

How about not using your servers for anything?

Unfortunately, we have to use an intermediate server to use Google OAuth.

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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I use Nylas but I recently had to move from a 2013 MBP to a 2008 MBP and it shows how unresponsive the UI is. I'd like to use something such as mutt but I find it very unfriendly.

Yeah we haven't done much testing on 9 year old laptops. It seems fast enough on machines from the last 3-4 years.

...well this is an interesting attitude for a mail client vendor. I need buy a new laptop every four years to continue working with my email, huh?

Re: Nylas Mail is now free

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It looks nice. I don't have a mac so I can't test until you finish your release for the other platforms, but my question is about your marketing copy. I almost hate to badger you about this since the product looks nice, but I've got to ask about this line, "...the most powerful email client ever built"? That's a pretty bold claim and it makes my baloney detector go off. My suspicion is that it almost certainly isn't…

Buddy? Is that you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUPDRnUWeBA

I had forgotten about that part. Thanks for the clip; it's awesome!

Call me old-fashioned, but I still think words matter. IANAL so I don't know whether any laws are broken or not by such claims as "worlds greatest coffee", but there are truth in advertising laws on the books in the U.S. https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/adv... Even if there weren't, it erodes your integrity if you're not being truthful and the faces of the staff in the video clip are a nice balance between disbelief over Buddy's credulity and shame (particularly on the guy in the foreground). But I may be reading too much into this...

(Repeating here that I'm not claiming that Nylas' claim is false; I don't know if it is or isn't).

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