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Hey – I'm an engineer at Nylas. This used to be true but Nylas Mail now uses a totally client-side sync engine. If you're on the Basic edition, your emails nev
by karim 10y ago
Hey – I'm an engineer at Nylas. This used to be true but Nylas Mail now uses a totally client-side sync engine.
If you're on the Basic edition, your emails never touch our servers. This was a huge undertaking (it's not easy to port a sync-engine written in Python and designed to run on servers to run efficiently on desktop machines) and is the major reason why we can now offer a freemium service. We're going to put out a blog post soon with more engineering details soon!
- OJFord 10y ago> We're going to put out a blog post soon with more engineering details soon! Looking forward to it! I think for this audience, this blog post raises more questions than it answers. I'm a student, I can't justify $12pm (or $7pm) for an email client however good it is - but I'll gladly use the Basic version and continue contributing; pay a little back that way :)
- ryanolsonx 10y agoBased on what you say here, why not have the user create a Nylas Mail account for advanced features once they decide to upgrade? That would make it so that users (that only use the Basic version) can have a privacy-safe email client, if it doesn't even talk to your servers in the first place.
- philfreo 10y agoThat's awesome to hear. However I see Nylas still is requesting full "view and manage your mail" OAuth permissions server-side. Is that something that can go away? https://www.dropbox.com/s/s37onyv41w91zi0/Screenshot%202017-01-17%2016.04.06.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/s37onyv41w91zi0/Screenshot%202017-...