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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by bad_user on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @02:17PM (#10657959)
It may be open source, but it's a thin client-side with your data being handled by the servers of a third party. No thanks, as trusting Google or FastMail with my email is a tough pill to swallow already, trusting an intermediary as well is way too much.
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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by ultramancool on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @02:44PM (#10658168)
You can actually host the Nylas Sync Engine yourself so if you're seriously considering it, it's still an option.
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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by masukomi on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @03:25PM (#10658475)
yes, but why not just use a client that doesn't need a server-side component
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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by tjohns on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @03:37PM (#10658546)
Looking through their API docs, one of the things that I noticed is that they added a transaction log ("delta" field), which IMAP doesn't have: https://www.nylas.com/docs/#deltas

Having a server communicate with IMAP (which is slow), cache the results, and export a more efficient/log-structured alternative probably makes syncing client computers much faster.

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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by bad_user on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @03:02PM (#10658303)
Interesting. Will take a look.
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