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  • Surprised to see a new (large) GTK app, especially in Rust.

    Can this be compiled for other operating systems than Linux?

    by ranger_danger
  • This is interesting, I am doing an experimental effort with similar goals. What is your approach to testing? The bug surface of something like this is quite large. Also, do you have a plan for sandboxing?
    by hedgehog
  • Is there anything like this but in TUI?
    by lasiotus
  • Tested on fastmail, here’s few notes from 10min impression:

    - can’t choose a sender email?! This is major dealbreaker, if you have many aliases or domains.

    - no favico for emails, this is also a deal breaker for me, as I used it to quickly skim and find or check new emails.

    - folders orders is messed up, trying to arrange them made it worse

    - trying to color a folder and it says “server doesn’t support that”

    Also the UI needs more polishing overall.

    by tamimio
  • Maybe I'm not the target here but an embedded chat ai window is a huge turn off to me. Having a CLI I can give my own agent to access/query the data, if I choose to do that, would have been preferred but if the target was my mother, then a chat window is probably a better option.
    by dvno42
  • I was 100% interested until crossing "...with AI".
    by h4kunamata
  • Does anyone remember Sparrow?

    I like the idea of a native Linux email client. The UI looks pretty good too. It's really not hard to beat thunderbird.

    Calling it version 1.0 is bullshit though. It's only about a month old: https://github.com/c9dev/penguin-mail/graphs/contributors?al...

    A project with the complexity of an email client cannot be considered stable in a month. There are bugs that will only show up after a year. It has a calendar after all.

    by tlhunter
  • That's a very nice looking app - I like the look of it it gives me Mail.app vibes.

    A mail client is always a tough thing to get right so I'm glad you're working on one

    I love then idea that as the total cost (time/money/attention) of personalizing software continues to come down, more people will be able to encourage a diaspora of options, tailored to each niche.

    by slipheen

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