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by isaachinman 7mo ago
I don't mean to be contrarian, but this is completely false. IMAP _seems_ to be a straightforward (but nasty and stateful) protocol, until you find out that every major provider ignores RFCs and does things slightly differently. It&#x2
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by isaachinman 8mo ago
The deeper issue here isn't about Antigravity specifically. It's that email is most people's de facto digital identity. Every password reset, every 2FA recovery, every account verification flows through it. When a company can
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GitHub Actions Are Down?
1 points by isaachinman 9mo ago|1 comments
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by isaachinman 9mo ago
Yeah, Gmail's "implementation" of IMAP is essentially unusable. They basically force consumers to use their proprietary API. We're building a cross-provider, cross-platform email client, and literally had to build specia
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by isaachinman 9mo ago
As far as I know, Spotify still doesn't have lossless
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by isaachinman 9mo ago
An LLM with a strongly-typed language and capable dev would produce better results. If you don't believe me, have a look through the codebase.
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by isaachinman 9mo ago
It's slow, unreliable, very feature-limited, and extremely expensive for what it is. Especially these days, you could vibe-code something an order of magnitude better within a day or two and not be locked into a single author's ra
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by isaachinman 9mo ago
Yes indeed. The criticism is well-founded and comes from months of experience with the product.
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by isaachinman 9mo ago
For anyone reading, I would highly recommend steering clear of EmailEngine.
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by isaachinman 9mo ago
On the flip side, our iOS app which _uses the Gmail API_ and also supports raw IMAP is ~14MB: https://marcoapp.io
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by isaachinman 10mo ago
Interesting! Just curious, if this is a completely greenfield project, why IMAP instead of JMAP? This is coming from someone who works with IMAP on a daily basis and has rightfully grown a disdain for it.
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by isaachinman 10mo ago
Check us out, we support Outlook and any other possible IMAP/OAuth provider. Cross platform, offline-first, and instant syncing: https://marcoapp.io
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by isaachinman 10mo ago
So... An iframe?
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by isaachinman 11mo ago
InstantDB is a far better choice
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by isaachinman 11mo ago
How or why is this better than InsantDB?
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by isaachinman 11mo ago
> The only thing I'm missing is on iOS. Email on my phone is a literal joke. I hear you on that. I'd even go a step further and say Apple Mail on desktop is a joke too. That led me to build Marco, an IMAP‑primitive, offline‑fir
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by isaachinman 11mo ago
No love for Railway? They're running their own metal and are a fantastic team.
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by isaachinman 11mo ago
Check out our product. I'm also a "leave everything in inbox" kind of user. I've got 100k+ threads in my inbox and full text search is single digit ms. IMAP search itself is unusable. SQLite on the other hand... https:&
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by isaachinman 11mo ago
A rules engine is our primary next focus at Marco. What you're describing is exactly the way email should work. https://marcoapp.io
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by isaachinman 11mo ago
Yeah. Try it on web.
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by isaachinman 11mo ago
And how up-to-date is that experience? Have you deployed Flutter to web?
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by isaachinman 11mo ago
I've worked and researched heavily in this field. If you want to write one codebase that hits all platforms with _actual native performance_ your only option at the moment is RN/Expo.
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by isaachinman 11mo ago
This is laughably wrong. Expo exported to a web target is the same or better than Capacitor.
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by isaachinman 11mo ago
For anyone looking for a cross-platform, local-first IMAP email client that "just works" and doesn't jam AI down your throat, check us out: https://marcoapp.io
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by isaachinman 1y ago
I strongly agree with this, just couldn't be bothered to type it out. I've tried it both ways many times, and you are indeed right on the money.
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Well Jobs is long gone. Apple Mail seems like it hasn't been touched much since his days. I've written about my experience and motivations here: https://marcoapp.io/blog/marco-an-introduction Gmail does indee
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Gilded tower? Are we living in separate universes? Shameless plug for a client with true offline-first IMAP support: https://marcoapp.io
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Not quite sure what you're asking for. Are you asking for a GUI/cli, or something else? I've built exactly what you're describing, but for the sake of a b2c product.
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by isaachinman 1y ago
Using CONDSTORE without an IDLE fallback rules out a lot of major providers.
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by isaachinman 1y ago
One of many reasons that drove me to create what Apple Mail _should_ have been ten years ago: https://marcoapp.io

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