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A comment on Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP Support.

Re:Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP... by lobster_johnson on Saturday May 06, 2017 @04:49PM (#14282186)
I keep trying these (Canary, Polymail, Spark, Airmail), and they all disappoint in some way, and I always end up going back to trusty old Apple Mail.

One big point for me: Except for Airmail, none of the new "minimalist" mail apps do plaintext. They all force you to send as HTML. I would love for "rich" email to work, but it's not nice the way current clients do it. In particular, I think it's incredibly presumptuous for the sender to specify which font the recipient should read the text in.

My favourite mail client ever was Sparrow, until Google killed it.

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Re:Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP... by SnowingXIV on Saturday May 06, 2017 @07:23PM (#14282856)
I feel like you're me. I've the exact same experiences and I keep trying something else but they fall flat and often miss some basic (important) features. Always going back to Apple mail.
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Re:Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP... by lobster_johnson on Saturday May 06, 2017 @07:32PM (#14282905)
Heh. Did you try Airmail? That's the only one that I liked.

The only reason I'm not using it today is that I was using the beta, and at one point they did a lot of frequent bugfix releases, and each new release started to require that you set up all your settings (mail accounts etc.) from scratch. I got tired of it and abandoned the thing.

I'm sure it's better now, I just haven't felt like going through all the steps again yet. Airmail does plaintext email, too.

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Re:Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP... by mablap on Saturday May 06, 2017 @08:49PM (#14283204)
Hey, I know someone working on a plaintext email service which should be encrypted by default, without attachments. I can post to HN if/when it's public.
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Re:Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP... by lobster_johnson on Saturday May 06, 2017 @08:55PM (#14283228)
What is a "plaintext email service"? Is it a native Mac/iOS app?
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Re:Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP... by mablap on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @08:32PM (#14312999)
Standard SMTP and IMAP but only plaintext is allowed, no attachments. If it works out it will be encrypted by default with a privkey + passphrase upon account creation, and you can of course encrypt on your own on top of the defaults.
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Re:Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP... by ubernostrum on Saturday May 06, 2017 @11:29PM (#14283691)
I keep coming back to Postbox. The underlying engine is a bit more reliable, the PGP support is a bit better, and it's still a nice-to-use Mac app.
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Re:Canary Mail – Smart Email Client for Mac and iOS with PGP... by whorleater on Sunday May 07, 2017 @12:00AM (#14283776)
Mailmate for me. It was good when it had that dumb brown icon, it's even better now
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