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Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors

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Re: Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors

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Post by erlend_sh »

bengotow wrote: post #28

Hey folks! Mailspring maintainer here — glad to see this on Hacker News. For anyone just catching up, here's the tldr on Mailspring: - It's a fork of Nylas Mail with the entire mailsync codebase (~40k lines of JavaScript) replaced with a new C++ core based on Mailcore2. It uses roughly half the RAM and CPU of Nylas Mail and idles with almost zero "CPU Wakes" thanks to new C++11 features, which translates to great bat…

Have you gotten in touch with the Nylas-mail-lives crowd? Their fork seems less goal-oriented than Mailspring. I’m sure if you invited them on board they’d be happy to join forces.

Re: Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors

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Post by furilo »

bengotow wrote: post #28

Hey folks! Mailspring maintainer here — glad to see this on Hacker News. For anyone just catching up, here's the tldr on Mailspring: - It's a fork of Nylas Mail with the entire mailsync codebase (~40k lines of JavaScript) replaced with a new C++ core based on Mailcore2. It uses roughly half the RAM and CPU of Nylas Mail and idles with almost zero "CPU Wakes" thanks to new C++11 features, which translates to great bat…

The Social|Promotions|Notifications|Forums tabs (and its automatic classification) is something I can't seem to live without. There is a way to replicate that (automatically in Mailspring). I think this is my main and only blocker to think on a permanent move! Congratulations on the work.

Re: Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors

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Post by KGIII »

jrimbault wrote: post #37
Lazare wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I prefer desktop clients (even the horrible electron things that pass as such these days), and I'm not thrilled with gmails UI which I find a bit cluttered and frustrating. It also doesn't support email snoozing, which I love. Google Inbox is a better UI, but goes too far the other way towards wasting too much space. It's also missing some key features, and is still not a desktop client. Also, neither one of them sup…

I think I'm not sure what you mean by "snoozing emails" ? Isn't it just muting for a few minutes the alerts you'd get ? Just to clarify for me.

Snoozing emails removes them from your inbox for a set amount of time.

Imagine you read emails in an unread folder, where read emails disappear. This basically would functionally mark them as read until a preset amount of time passes, then they show up as unread again. It's a bit like that, only in your inbox itself.

It's not actually a part of the email specifications, but some people seem to like it.

Re: Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors

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Post by KGIII »

crispinb wrote: post #3

Do a favour folks for your non-technical friends. Show them how to turn off image loading by default in their mail client. And how to check link destinations in emails before clicking on them. People need to know how to protect themselves from abominations like 'Open tracking' and 'link tracking'.

I normally suggest reading in plain text, as the default. This may not work for everyone, but I find no use for rich format emails.

It's much better today, but there used to be quite a few vulnerabilities via rich formatted emails.

Re: Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors

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Post by qeternity »

bengotow wrote: post #28

Hey folks! Mailspring maintainer here — glad to see this on Hacker News. For anyone just catching up, here's the tldr on Mailspring: - It's a fork of Nylas Mail with the entire mailsync codebase (~40k lines of JavaScript) replaced with a new C++ core based on Mailcore2. It uses roughly half the RAM and CPU of Nylas Mail and idles with almost zero "CPU Wakes" thanks to new C++11 features, which translates to great bat…

Current Airmail user here. Have given Nylas a look in the past and will definitely check out Mailspring. Friendly advice: I am all for paying reasonable prices for quality software, but I think you may run into trouble pricing the pro version as a subscription, or at least as an $8/mo subscription.

Re: Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors

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Post by jrimbault »

KGIII wrote: post #44
jrimbault wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think I'm not sure what you mean by "snoozing emails" ? Isn't it just muting for a few minutes the alerts you'd get ? Just to clarify for me.

Snoozing emails removes them from your inbox for a set amount of time. Imagine you read emails in an unread folder, where read emails disappear. This basically would functionally mark them as read until a preset amount of time passes, then they show up as unread again. It's a bit like that, only in your inbox itself. It's not actually a part of the email specifications, but some people seem to like it.

Thank you. And why does it seem to require a third party server ?

Re: Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors

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Post by breakingcups »

chrismorgan wrote: post #24
Lazare wrote: post #6

I used and loved Nylas Mail (aka N1), so I'm going to be taking a close look at this. For the record, my needs in a mail client are: GUI, very clean UI, pretty themes, good search, works with gmail, ideally supports snoozing emails (a key feature if you like to pursue Inbox Zero), if at all possible should be a desktop app for OS X and Windows, and I wouldn't be adverse to open notifications and such. Also, I'm expli…

At FastMail we’re hoping to implement snooze next year, as a first-party solution that doesn’t need the support of a client or third-party server. There is no established convention or standard for representing snooze over IMAP. There’s not yet any consensus on how to represent it in JMAP, the emerging standard that we’re backing (and which our web UI will be using fairly soon), either. It’ll be a FastMail-specific J…

Which other parties are currently backing JMAP?

Re: Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors

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Post by tsukasagenesis »

Really happy to hear it ! I try nylas when they get out, but i'm not fine to let them keep their email.

I tried then to use their engine but they deliberately let it die/non working, so I did go back to thunderbird.

It's amazing guys, I was waiting for it since a long time, I have no problem to pay for the app but not for lose my email hosting !

Re: Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors

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Post by shakna »

jrimbault wrote: post #47
KGIII wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Snoozing emails removes them from your inbox for a set amount of time. Imagine you read emails in an unread folder, where read emails disappear. This basically would functionally mark them as read until a preset amount of time passes, then they show up as unread again. It's a bit like that, only in your inbox itself. It's not actually a part of the email specifications, but some people seem to like it.

Thank you. And why does it seem to require a third party server ?

> - It still has the same great pro features, like snoozing and send later, but doesn't send your email credentials to Mailspring servers. All of these features have been re-implemented to run locally on your computer.

It doesn't require a third-party server. Nylas did do it that way, but Mailspring aren't. It's local.

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