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Nylas Mail 2.0 — The next version of the best open-source email app
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@juanbuis bit confusing how the pricing keeps changing. first was free, then paid, now free again... hopefully it stays free this time
@_jacksmith it's only partially free. There's only limited amounts of snooze (and maybe send later) there's an upswell waiting after your weekly quota is used up...
@nscmnto I'm not sure what is the problem, for me it's very fast. It's way faster than Inbox.
@eonpilot @_yannbertrand @nscmnto Electron is good for prototyping or creating a MVP, but not the right technology for scaling applications - even though it's widely used. It just draines our devices (RAM, CPU & battery) since it is an entire instance of Google Chrome, just for running - often very basic - applications.
@josef_moser @_yannbertrand @nscmnto I'm on the fence about this. Sure Electron a bit more intensive in use. But easier to scale to other platforms. Also more people are familiar with JavaScript. I think Atom.io is a success because it is easy to add things to it. I've been an Atom fan from 2015. Electron & Atom is backed by github so I wouldn't count it out just yet.
@garrido OK, you can build apps at scale, but at the expense of your users. If you're involved on several Slack teams, Slack - an app that is essentially a pretty interface for IRC - can easily take up more than 1GB of RAM and 5% CPU in idle mode. It's a performance monster.
In brief, if you care about your users and their UX, you can but shouldn't use Electron.
@eonpilot @_yannbertrand @nscmnto Nope, it's not fast. By almost all performance metrics and reviews, Atom is one of the slowest editors out there.
Yet, I still use it every day and enjoy it. But don't call it "fast".
@philipamour it most probably still runs on Electron (consistent with the comment of @hadifarnoud on extensive RAM use); it was also ported to Windows and Linux, so it seems very unlikely that they built native apps for all platforms.
It's so annoying that they don't get their newsletter right. I unsubscribed like a thousand times, even sent them two emails directly to take me off their lists, but still received the newsletter announcing Nylas 2 today.
My tip: don't make the mistake to sign up or you'll be spammed until the end of time...
@josef_moser not only that but since I synced multiple accounts to the app, I get 5 newsletters all at the same time from them
I made the mistake of giving them a go. Then discovered they have access to all your emails on their servers and no way to delete your account with them, so they keep your data, and probably keep fetching it. I emailed them about this but never got a response.
I don't get the value proposition on any of these kinds of mail clients - especially when that involves having my mail exposed to additional servers. I tried them all, tried to like them all and have always returned to gmail in browser tabs. Simple, secure and just damn works.
Worth noting: Nylas Mail connects to IMAP servers directly now, uses cloud only for a few features: https://blog.nylas.com/nylas-mai...
Wonder what drove that decision? I thought the cloud infrastructure
was their main product.
Have anyone checked privacy policy?
"Collection and Use of Information
Information Collected or Received from You...
Using the App. If you download and install the App, we’ll collect your email credentials (i.e. email address(es), which are PII, and associated passwords) for those email inboxes that you want to access through the App. By inputting your email credentials, you’re permitting Nylas to make a copy of the entire contents of the applicable email inbox, calendar, and contact book. Nylas will perpetually connect to, and synch any changes to, your applicable email inboxes."
No thanks.
I love using Nylas, great features! Only thing lacking is the "tracking" feature - when you go back to read an email you've sent, it will say that they have opened it. Why does it track the sender?
@hadifarnoud Nope, even if I open it in Nylas mail app, it will instantly give me a notification that it has been opened. I guess it's a bug then ...
Hey, I've just installed Nylas 2.0. Looks very good. I have only one issue, it does not have separate calendar so I can organize my meetings. Everything else is awesome!
My new favorite email client - I will switch from Inbox. However, it does have a few things I would like improved.
1. It's hard to install plugins: I have to clone or download the zip file and then unzip it. Since it's based on atom electron, I would think it be easier to incorporate something like their plugins search function.
Also, the old community plugins don't seem to work with the new version 2.
2. On Windows, the create new email icon is all the way at the left corner - making it harder to create one.
Other than that, the app is great! 👍
Getting a 'No update available You're running the latest version of N1 (1.5.0)'. It's not really clear how to DL the new version on the website either, I'm getting redirected to an API console page with DL link. When I go to home page shows a 'signed out' status.
@stoplion no, you need to just use nylas mail 2 and login to your account, they're dropping n1 next month
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