Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors

Re:Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original a... by Lazare on Friday October 06, 2017 @12:23AM (#15414406)

I prefer desktop clients (even the horrible electron things that pass as such these days), and I'm not thrilled with gmails UI which I find a bit cluttered and frustrating. It also doesn't support email snoozing, which I love.

Google Inbox is a better UI, but goes too far the other way towards wasting too much space. It's also missing some key features, and is still not a desktop client.

Also, neither one of them supports showing emails from multiple gmail accounts in a single inbox (unless you just blindly forward emails from one to the other, which you can do, but I'd rather avoid).

I recognize I'm being very picky here; mostly what I just want is Dropbox's Mailbox app, but they killed that off long ago, much to my eternal disappointment.

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Re:Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original a... by jrimbault on Friday October 06, 2017 @03:51AM (#15415095)

I think I'm not sure what you mean by "snoozing emails" ? Isn't it just muting for a few minutes the alerts you'd get ? Just to clarify for me.

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Re:Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original a... by KGIII on Friday October 06, 2017 @05:43AM (#15415518)

Snoozing emails removes them from your inbox for a set amount of time.

Imagine you read emails in an unread folder, where read emails disappear. This basically would functionally mark them as read until a preset amount of time passes, then they show up as unread again. It's a bit like that, only in your inbox itself.

It's not actually a part of the email specifications, but some people seem to like it.

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Re:Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original a... by jrimbault on Friday October 06, 2017 @05:54AM (#15415573)

Thank you. And why does it seem to require a third party server ?

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Re:Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original a... by dsr_ on Friday October 06, 2017 @07:13AM (#15415827)

Obvious implementation: use IMAP to create a folder, snooze-$timestamp. Move messages there. Every so often, check the snooze-$timestamp folders and present every one where the timestampt has expired as part of the unread group. Delete empty folders.

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Re:Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original a... by shakna on Friday October 06, 2017 @06:54AM (#15415765)

> - It still has the same great pro features, like snoozing and send later, but doesn't send your email credentials to Mailspring servers. All of these features have been re-implemented to run locally on your computer.

It doesn't require a third-party server. Nylas did do it that way, but Mailspring aren't. It's local.

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Re:Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original a... by KGIII on Friday October 06, 2017 @07:11AM (#15415817)

Yeah, it seems easy enough to do client side unless one wants it to be synchronized across devices. Then, I imagine it'd be easy for the email provider to do, though it'd need client support or to be in the browser.

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Re:Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original a... by LudoA on Friday October 06, 2017 @03:22AM (#15414997)

> It's also missing some key features

I'm curious, such as what?

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