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.
> 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.
Thunderbird still doesn't have proper threading
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.
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.
Have you ever experienced stable-by-default?
If so, I'd love to hear a writeup!
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.
So it's probably missing features which should make a good 1.0 mailer.