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Nylas Mail 2.0 - The next version of the best open-source email app

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I'd like to love Nylas, but it's (still) really slow on my 2015 rMBP.
Electron should not go to production
Yeah, I tried it not too long ago and it was unbearably slow. Not starter for me.
I'm not sure what is the problem, for me it's very fast. It's way faster than Inbox.
Atom.io is fast on my rMBP 2012 (It's electron)
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.
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...
not only that but since I synced multiple accounts to the app, I get 5 newsletters all at the same time from them
so its not just me
it uses more than 1GB of RAM. it's way too much!
clocking in at 1.4GB after the update... wild!
Hunter
Nylas comes from a pretty complicated past, with some of its best features like email snoozing and delayed sending hidden behind its paid Pro subscription. But with today's release of 2.0 those things are now free — exciting!
bit confusing how the pricing keeps changing. first was free, then paid, now free again... hopefully it stays free this time
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...
What are the advantages over Polymail or Spark?
I agree. Foggy pricing models are not cool.
or newton
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: Wonder what drove that decision? I thought the cloud infrastructure was their main product.
Gave Nylas (latest version) a try a couple of days back. Didn't work well. Was consistently getting IMAP connection errors. Wrote to team twice. Tweeted to them. All in vain. Hoping to hear back from them soon.
Is it a native app yet or still a bulky chrome-wrapped web app? 😊
it most probably still runs on Electron (consistent with the comment of 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.
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! 👍
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