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I feel the same way personally. I feel like I see tons of people complaining about it, but it's just what I want out of a mail client. The UI is a great, the GP

I feel the same way personally. I feel like I see tons of people complaining about it, but it's just what I want out of a mail client. The UI is a great, the GPG integration is great with enigmail, it's a very polished product. Not only that, but making one based on web technologies that moves away from the native look and feel it currently has would truly be a loss in my opinion. I'd probably give Claws Mail and alpine another go, maybe even desktop outlook before I'd go to something Electron-esque. I already have enough shitty electron apps - I'm currently dealing with a really weird font rendering issue arising from Electron use in VS Code.

smonff 9y ago
Same. I did quite dirty stuff with Thunderbird and it always behave well and it never crash. Plus, it's quite ergonomic.
_eht 9y ago
It's an incredible product as-is, but I feel like they are stuck between a rock and a hard place with moving forward and forecasting beyond the immediate future. I don't see why a new implementation couldn't maintain the current UI/native feel outside of poor decision making. I could see it as a net positive, with cleaner easier to maintain code base built on more recent tech that is more accommodating to younger developers. If they could pull off what Atom.io/Github did for the old ingrained IDE world in a mail client, that would be incredible, IMO.
- forgotpwtomain 9y ago
  > If they could pull off what Atom.io/Github did for the old ingrained IDE world in a mail client, that would be incredible, IMO. You mean give hipster programmers an editor where one can literally see the delay between typing and something appearing on the screen?
  - _eht 9y ago
    Is that your experience? Dang. That must suck. I don't need you to tell me your age, I can deduce it by your general attitude towards 'hipsters.' Who hurt you? Who replaced you?
    - sctb 9y ago
      We don't personally attack other users like this here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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watter 9y ago
If you're on Linux uninstall mscorefonts.

smonff 9y ago

Same. I did quite dirty stuff with Thunderbird and it always behave well and it never crash. Plus, it's quite ergonomic.

_eht 9y ago

It's an incredible product as-is, but I feel like they are stuck between a rock and a hard place with moving forward and forecasting beyond the immediate future. I don't see why a new implementation couldn't maintain the current UI/native feel outside of poor decision making. I could see it as a net positive, with cleaner easier to maintain code base built on more recent tech that is more accommodating to younger developers. If they could pull off what Atom.io/Github did for the old ingrained IDE world in a mail client, that would be incredible, IMO.

forgotpwtomain 9y ago
> If they could pull off what Atom.io/Github did for the old ingrained IDE world in a mail client, that would be incredible, IMO. You mean give hipster programmers an editor where one can literally see the delay between typing and something appearing on the screen?
- _eht 9y ago
  Is that your experience? Dang. That must suck. I don't need you to tell me your age, I can deduce it by your general attitude towards 'hipsters.' Who hurt you? Who replaced you?
  - sctb 9y ago
    We don't personally attack other users like this here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - deleted 9y ago
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watter 9y ago

If you're on Linux uninstall mscorefonts.