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Always great to see people innovating on email clients, everyone is different and would have they own best way to manage their email for themselves. So any new
by samwillis 5y ago
Always great to see people innovating on email clients, everyone is different and would have they own best way to manage their email for themselves. So any new option is always good.
Out of interest, you have started with Gmail which is understandable but do you have planes to support order email services or even just plain IMAP?
I know Gmail is complicated as it doesn't really do IMAP properly and so it better to use their api, so you have to chose one of the other to start. But I hope you have plans to support IMAP.
- mayop100 5y agoWe would very much like to support other services in the future. Rather than using IMAP, we integrate with Gmail's APIs from our servers. This allows us to have a new client-server protocol that supports a bunch of new stuff -- like faster real-time updates, better latency compensation and offline handling, bundled inboxes, more interesting triage flows, emoji reactions, presence, etc. The downside of this is obviously that we have to do a customer integration with Gmail to do this. But fortunately it's not too complex, and we intend to support other services in the future. And maybe, in the _long term_, improve the protocols so this integration can be more standard.
- jtsiskin 5y agoIt’s not a business critique at all; it’s just always a little sad to see awesome tools built that only work for the dominant player in the space. Just another few inches in the moat which makes it harder for an new startup to compete. It may make total sense and be the most rational choice for your business, it’s just unfortunate various systems have made this the case