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It may be open source, but it's a thin client-side with your data being handled by the servers of a third party. No thanks, as trusting Google or FastMail with
by bad_user 11y ago
It may be open source, but it's a thin client-side with your data being handled by the servers of a third party. No thanks, as trusting Google or FastMail with my email is a tough pill to swallow already, trusting an intermediary as well is way too much.
- ultramancool 11y agoYou can actually host the Nylas Sync Engine yourself so if you're seriously considering it, it's still an option.
- bad_user 11y agoInteresting. Will take a look.
- masukomi 11y agoyes, but why not just use a client that doesn't need a server-side component
- tjohns 11y agoLooking through their API docs, one of the things that I noticed is that they added a transaction log ("delta" field), which IMAP doesn't have: https://www.nylas.com/docs/#deltas https://www.nylas.com/docs/#deltas Having a server communicate with IMAP (which is slow), cache the results, and export a more efficient/log-structured alternative probably makes syncing client computers much faster.