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Re:Why it’s so hard to innovate in the e-mail space (2014) by mikhailt on Monday December 07, 2015 @04:45PM (#10692963)
It will be easier to build a new email spec that's more feasible/modern with security built in mind than it is to build a sustainable email client that tries to comply with various email services (GMail is the worst offender for not being consistent with IMAP spec).

Mailmate is my fav OS X client that focues more on power user features but it has a boring classic interface which doesn't bother me at all. Despite having integration support with SMIME/PGP, Markdown reply, powerful search features, and so on that makes me productive, the only thing I hear when I recommend this to other people is that its UI is ugly. :|

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Re:Why it’s so hard to innovate in the e-mail space (2014) by akvadrako on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @07:24AM (#10695952)
It's not as ugly as Thunderbird or a web-app. At least it follows most of the OS X conventions. Anyway the existence of Mailmate shows how the premise in the article is totally wrong - it's not hard to create a decent modern email client - it already exists and only takes one developer.

A better title would be: Why is it so hard for users to use a good email client?

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