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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

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.

aylmao 10y ago
Spark and Polymail are two other options. I'm personally a fan of how easily it's to setup your own keyboard shortcuts in Spark.
- OJFord 10y ago
  Nylas has a keymaps.json (as well as the UI of course) which is a +1 in my book. Unfortunately other things missing from textual config, such as mail rules (filters).
- otalp 10y ago
  There are serious privacy concerns[1] with spark though. One alternative to Polymail which is not often discussed is Canary Mail[2], which I've always found to be reliable and good looking. [1]- https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/5grsan/do_not_use_the_spark_email_client_by_readdle/ https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/5grsan/do_not_use_... [2]- https://canarymail.io https://canarymail.io
  - davidcollantes 10y ago
    Canary isn't fully reliable... yet. I believe Dejalu[0] is more reliable and stable (from one of Sparrow's creator). [0] https://dejalu.me/ https://dejalu.me/
grinich 10y ago
Yeah we haven't done much testing on 9 year old laptops. It seems fast enough on machines from the last 3-4 years.
- toyg 10y ago
  So much for people saying "machines now are good enough for most basic uses and don't need upgrading anymore"... I guess Intel should be thankful for The Rise Of Electron Apps.
  - grinich 10y ago
    They probably work with software written 8-9 years ago, though!
    - wingerlang 10y ago
      I think he is saying that electron apps are bad because they are so power hungry. I'm using a 2008 macbook as well and I don't have any huge problems with most apps. I do stay away from web-tech-based apps as much as I can though.
    - ashark 10y ago
      And modern software that behaves respectfully, I'd expect, especially if it's doing something that my 100Mhz Pentium w/ 64MB (with an M) of memory used to manage just fine (graphical email client). With the bonus that newer machines can run more such programs at once, and enjoy longer battery life.
    - criddell 10y ago
      I'm not sure what your point is. Nylas looks pretty cool, but is it doing so much more than other 10 year old email clients? Is it features or implementation choices that lead to relatively high resource usage?
- ghostly_s 10y ago
  ...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?

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.

aylmao 10y ago

Spark and Polymail are two other options. I'm personally a fan of how easily it's to setup your own keyboard shortcuts in Spark.

OJFord 10y ago
Nylas has a keymaps.json (as well as the UI of course) which is a +1 in my book. Unfortunately other things missing from textual config, such as mail rules (filters).
otalp 10y ago
There are serious privacy concerns[1] with spark though. One alternative to Polymail which is not often discussed is Canary Mail[2], which I've always found to be reliable and good looking. [1]- https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/5grsan/do_not_use_the_spark_email_client_by_readdle/ https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/5grsan/do_not_use_... [2]- https://canarymail.io https://canarymail.io
- davidcollantes 10y ago
  Canary isn't fully reliable... yet. I believe Dejalu[0] is more reliable and stable (from one of Sparrow's creator). [0] https://dejalu.me/ https://dejalu.me/

grinich 10y ago

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

toyg 10y ago
So much for people saying "machines now are good enough for most basic uses and don't need upgrading anymore"... I guess Intel should be thankful for The Rise Of Electron Apps.
- grinich 10y ago
  They probably work with software written 8-9 years ago, though!
  - wingerlang 10y ago
    I think he is saying that electron apps are bad because they are so power hungry. I'm using a 2008 macbook as well and I don't have any huge problems with most apps. I do stay away from web-tech-based apps as much as I can though.
  - ashark 10y ago
    And modern software that behaves respectfully, I'd expect, especially if it's doing something that my 100Mhz Pentium w/ 64MB (with an M) of memory used to manage just fine (graphical email client). With the bonus that newer machines can run more such programs at once, and enjoy longer battery life.
  - criddell 10y ago
    I'm not sure what your point is. Nylas looks pretty cool, but is it doing so much more than other 10 year old email clients? Is it features or implementation choices that lead to relatively high resource usage?
ghostly_s 10y ago
...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?