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Another one for your list: Nylas Mail. We straight up would have not shipped it without Electron and the CPU it uses to sync is on-par with apps like Apple Mai

by grinich 10y ago

Another one for your list: Nylas Mail. We straight up would have not shipped it without Electron and the CPU it uses to sync is on-par with apps like Apple Mail & Thunderbird.

LeoNatan25 10y ago
Nylas Mail > Nylas Mail - The best free email app | Nylas - The best free email app What exactly makes it "best"? It looks to offer nothing more than other "best" mail apps.
- grinich 10y ago
  Hard to answer your question without hijacking the thread, but here goes: • It's got pretty much all the power features out there like Snoozing, Open Tracking, Send Later, Reminders, Enriched Contacts (i.e. Rapportive), Unified Inbox, Swipe Actions, Templates, etc. • It's open source and super easy to extend with JavaScript plugins. Developer have made dozens of themes and some cool plugins including PGP, Unsubscribe, Translation, Todoist, Trello, Markdown, etc. • It's cross-platform for Mac, Windows & Linux with custom UI styles for each. • It works with all mail providers including Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud, Outlook and even vanilla IMAP and on-prem Exchange servers. • It syncs your data directly (not via a cloud service) for speed and security. • It works offline, so you can use it on a plane or when you don't have WiFi. • It's open source GPL available on GitHub with >20k stars: https://github.com/nylas/nylas-mail https://github.com/nylas/nylas-mail • It's free. It's also still improving and has over 800 GitHub issues and we would love help from anyone who wants to make email better! :)
  - nnain 10y ago
    There are other comments in here comparing react-native to Electron. Do you know if you could build Nylas Mail at the same pace with react-native? Will the binary size/RAM usage drop significantly on react-native?
    - grinich 10y ago
      I haven't yet seen a substantial desktop app built with React Native and afaik neither FB nor GitHub is investing in React Native for desktop so generally this is hard to say. React Native is more of a framework whereas Electron is a runtime-- much different goals though both are super cool and I'm enthusiastic about the future of both!
Mithaldu 10y ago
I'm holding off my downvote to see if i can get a straight answer out of you. Nylas Mail bills itself as the best email app. Them's strong words, but maybe you're worth the claim? Let's see! I see from screenshots that Nylas has folders and labels. Can i use either of these in the following fashion? - i can have a tree structure of them - an email can be in two separate folders/labels at the same time - folders/labels can be configured to learn which emails to automatically sort into themselves, based on the email contents, by dragging and dropping the email into or out of them Ball's in your court. E: Bonus round! In this screenshot there's only 6 emails in the list: https://www.nylas.com/static/img/nylas-mail/hero_graphic_mac@2x.png https://www.nylas.com/static/img/nylas-mail/hero_graphic_mac... Is there a way to get a list of emails where each line is actually only a line of text tall?
- grinich 10y ago
  Some quick answers • If by "tree structure" you mean a folder hierarchy, yep that's supported. I think we have a current bug with dragging nested subfolders but we're working on a fix. (Surprisingly >99% of users have a flat hierarchy.) • A thread can certainly be in two separate folders (e.g. Inbox and Sent) but an individual message can't be in two folders at once. In that situation there are two copies on the actual mail server. For Gmail/Gsuite this is possible via labels where any thread can have an arbitrary number of labels. We support both systems. • "labels can be configured to learn which emails to automatically sort into themselves, based on the email contents" -- this is a really cool idea and something we've talked about internally. AFAIK there is no cross-platform mail client that does this today beyond things like manual Gmail filters. It could also be an interesting plugin that anyone could build on NM. We have a Slack chat room where folks discuss stuff like this if you're interested: http://slack-invite.nylas.com/ http://slack-invite.nylas.com/ • And for your bonus round (haha) yes there are 2 different ways to configure the UI. One of them is 3-pane with a reading mode like Outlook, and the other is 2-pane that navigates like Gmail. http://i.imgur.com/Lt0x7O4.png http://i.imgur.com/Lt0x7O4.png Also in 3-pane if you make the message list wide enough it will switch into the compact version: http://i.imgur.com/SaGp9eV.png http://i.imgur.com/SaGp9eV.png (Obviously it will show your real mail data. We have a "screenshot mode" for sharing stuff like this without revealing sensitive information.)

by grinich 10y ago

Another one for your list: Nylas Mail. We straight up would have not shipped it without Electron and the CPU it uses to sync is on-par with apps like Apple Mail & Thunderbird.

LeoNatan25 10y ago

Nylas Mail > Nylas Mail - The best free email app | Nylas - The best free email app What exactly makes it "best"? It looks to offer nothing more than other "best" mail apps.

grinich 10y ago
Hard to answer your question without hijacking the thread, but here goes: • It's got pretty much all the power features out there like Snoozing, Open Tracking, Send Later, Reminders, Enriched Contacts (i.e. Rapportive), Unified Inbox, Swipe Actions, Templates, etc. • It's open source and super easy to extend with JavaScript plugins. Developer have made dozens of themes and some cool plugins including PGP, Unsubscribe, Translation, Todoist, Trello, Markdown, etc. • It's cross-platform for Mac, Windows & Linux with custom UI styles for each. • It works with all mail providers including Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud, Outlook and even vanilla IMAP and on-prem Exchange servers. • It syncs your data directly (not via a cloud service) for speed and security. • It works offline, so you can use it on a plane or when you don't have WiFi. • It's open source GPL available on GitHub with >20k stars: https://github.com/nylas/nylas-mail https://github.com/nylas/nylas-mail • It's free. It's also still improving and has over 800 GitHub issues and we would love help from anyone who wants to make email better! :)
- nnain 10y ago
  There are other comments in here comparing react-native to Electron. Do you know if you could build Nylas Mail at the same pace with react-native? Will the binary size/RAM usage drop significantly on react-native?
  - grinich 10y ago
    I haven't yet seen a substantial desktop app built with React Native and afaik neither FB nor GitHub is investing in React Native for desktop so generally this is hard to say. React Native is more of a framework whereas Electron is a runtime-- much different goals though both are super cool and I'm enthusiastic about the future of both!

Mithaldu 10y ago

I'm holding off my downvote to see if i can get a straight answer out of you. Nylas Mail bills itself as the best email app. Them's strong words, but maybe you're worth the claim? Let's see! I see from screenshots that Nylas has folders and labels. Can i use either of these in the following fashion? - i can have a tree structure of them - an email can be in two separate folders/labels at the same time - folders/labels can be configured to learn which emails to automatically sort into themselves, based on the email contents, by dragging and dropping the email into or out of them Ball's in your court. E: Bonus round! In this screenshot there's only 6 emails in the list: https://www.nylas.com/static/img/nylas-mail/hero_graphic_mac@2x.png https://www.nylas.com/static/img/nylas-mail/hero_graphic_mac... Is there a way to get a list of emails where each line is actually only a line of text tall?

grinich 10y ago
Some quick answers • If by "tree structure" you mean a folder hierarchy, yep that's supported. I think we have a current bug with dragging nested subfolders but we're working on a fix. (Surprisingly >99% of users have a flat hierarchy.) • A thread can certainly be in two separate folders (e.g. Inbox and Sent) but an individual message can't be in two folders at once. In that situation there are two copies on the actual mail server. For Gmail/Gsuite this is possible via labels where any thread can have an arbitrary number of labels. We support both systems. • "labels can be configured to learn which emails to automatically sort into themselves, based on the email contents" -- this is a really cool idea and something we've talked about internally. AFAIK there is no cross-platform mail client that does this today beyond things like manual Gmail filters. It could also be an interesting plugin that anyone could build on NM. We have a Slack chat room where folks discuss stuff like this if you're interested: http://slack-invite.nylas.com/ http://slack-invite.nylas.com/ • And for your bonus round (haha) yes there are 2 different ways to configure the UI. One of them is 3-pane with a reading mode like Outlook, and the other is 2-pane that navigates like Gmail. http://i.imgur.com/Lt0x7O4.png http://i.imgur.com/Lt0x7O4.png Also in 3-pane if you make the message list wide enough it will switch into the compact version: http://i.imgur.com/SaGp9eV.png http://i.imgur.com/SaGp9eV.png (Obviously it will show your real mail data. We have a "screenshot mode" for sharing stuff like this without revealing sensitive information.)