Nylas Mail
Version: 2.0 Web: https://github.com/nylas/nylas-mail
We were the early birds to report on the next-gen mail client known as NylasN1 in LXF206. It offered a fresh approach to email routines by inserting a special proxy (Nylas Sync Server) between the IMAP server and the graphical client on the user end. NylasN1 has been actively developed lately as part of the business project by the Californian team. On phase one, the team gave everyone free access to their home-run Sync Server, but later on they made it a paid feature for businesses. To make N1 work on a home desktop machine, you needed to roll out your own instance of Sync Server, then connect the client to it. That looked like an undisputed redundancy for an average localhost admin, to be frank. But as time went by, good news finally landed: a slightly renamed app, NylasMail, is here without proxies and hassles. The new NylasMail2.0 can connect to IMAP servers directly, which enables you to set up your Google Mail, Yahoo or iCloud account in seconds. You can still go with a separate sync engine setup if you need to – all parts of Nylas are still open source.
The application features many additional plugins for advanced filtering and classifying of your inbox, as well as notifications, scheduling, mail ‘snoozing’, gathering statistics, automatic filtering and many more. Some of the above features used to be available in the commercial ‘Pro’ version only just few months ago, whereas right now they are moved into the main tree. Some plugins will be of great interest to sale agents or analysts: for instance, you can track if a recipient opened your message and followed an URL from within it. You don’t need to do anything to get tracked either. Once you try NylasMail 2.0 with your real account, expect attention from the team’s director of growth, who desperately needs your feedback on the app, and thus sends you few questions you didn’t ask for. We preferred to run our own in-house sync server to stay free from this.
“You can still go with a separate sync engine setup if you need to.”