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.

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fooqux an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> The UI looks pretty good too. It's really not hard to beat thunderbird.

I don't understand this mentality. It's an email client. There's not a lot needed UI-wise to make a functioning interface. Display a list of emails, show the full message when you open it, etc. I don't see anything functionally different between this email app and basically every other one I've ever used.

You've either got insane standards or are using email way different than I.

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cosmic_cheese an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Can’t speak for others but for me Thunderbird’s UI feels distracting and almost grating in some ways. It’s technically functional but doesn’t feel right.

I know things like that don’t bother some folks and that’s fine, but others like myself can’t turn the visual parts of their brains off and so some software feels like nails on a chalkboard to use.

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Georgelemental an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Thunderbird still doesn't have proper threading

	▲	fooqux an hour ago \| parent [-]
		From an engineering standpoint, I get it. But from a normal user's standpoint? I don't care. If my email client needs more than a single thread, something's fucked. I randomly bounce between Thunderbird and KMail and honestly I can't tell the difference except cosmetically. Both are snappy. Neither crash. Both send and receive emails just fine.

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Grombobulous 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

1. Being released on GitHub for a month does not mean it’s a month old.

2. Seems odd to assume instability by default without evidence.

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rainingmonkey 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Have you ever experienced stable-by-default?

If so, I'd love to hear a writeup!

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Grombobulous 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Well, I'm trying it out and it seems stable.

It's missing some features that are dealbreakers for me, but I haven't found anything unstable yet.

	▲	johannes1234321 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		So it's probably missing features which should make a good 1.0 mailer.