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I bought both the Mac app and the iOS app immediately, for one simple reason: this is an effort to attack the "mail problem" that actually shows promise. We li

by jwr 13y ago

I bought both the Mac app and the iOS app immediately, for one simple reason: this is an effort to attack the "mail problem" that actually shows promise. We live in a world with broken E-mail [1], and there are very few attempts to fix it. And it turned out that very few people are willing to pay for better E-mail. Well, given how much time I spend on E-mail and how useful it can be, I am one of those people willing to pay. I bought the apps even though the iOS one couldn't even work with my (Linux-based, dovecot) IMAP server. I don't mind, I want these guys to take the money and develop the apps. Here's hoping they won't sell the company tomorrow to an evil giant who will shut the whole operation down. [1] Just off the top of my head, some broken aspects of today's E-mail: HTML E-mail, crappy threading, broken quoting, top-posting, problems with attachments, attachment sizes, mail sorting…

diggan 13y ago
I don't think there is any effort to attack any "mail problem" since this is for Mac only. No, this is just another company trying to make money out of making emails beautiful for set of users in the computer-industry.
dingaling 13y ago
> I bought the apps even though the iOS one couldn't even work with my (Linux-based, dovecot) IMAP server. I have a colleague who analysed the Mail Pilot IMAP conversation and managed to hand-craft his Dovecot IMAP folders just right so that the app worked with his VPS. IIRC it was a problem with the app being really picky about IMAP namespaces. The same problem meant that the app didn't work with Fastmail, but despite having been informed of the bug the Mail Pilot team blamed Fastmail and 'non-compliant IMAP implementations'. The Fastmail response was a classic: show us where the bug is in our implementation and we'll fix it in a week. There was no response.
- bowlofpetunias 13y ago
  I think I'll forgo the pleasure of paying for an email client who's makers believe that in the real world there is such a thing as a 'compliant IMAP implementation'.

by jwr 13y ago

diggan 13y ago

I don't think there is any effort to attack any "mail problem" since this is for Mac only. No, this is just another company trying to make money out of making emails beautiful for set of users in the computer-industry.

dingaling 13y ago

> I bought the apps even though the iOS one couldn't even work with my (Linux-based, dovecot) IMAP server. I have a colleague who analysed the Mail Pilot IMAP conversation and managed to hand-craft his Dovecot IMAP folders just right so that the app worked with his VPS. IIRC it was a problem with the app being really picky about IMAP namespaces. The same problem meant that the app didn't work with Fastmail, but despite having been informed of the bug the Mail Pilot team blamed Fastmail and 'non-compliant IMAP implementations'. The Fastmail response was a classic: show us where the bug is in our implementation and we'll fix it in a week. There was no response.

bowlofpetunias 13y ago
I think I'll forgo the pleasure of paying for an email client who's makers believe that in the real world there is such a thing as a 'compliant IMAP implementation'.