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0 pointscomex12y ago0 comments

How exactly does writing an email client satisfy "instead of disrupting your workflow by offering a distinct native app developed from scratch"?

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CodeMage12y ago· 2 in thread

Remind me again why an e-mail client has to be a native app? Is there anything special that makes an e-mail client different from a, say, IRC client, which could be, for example, a browser extension such as Chatzilla?

comexOP12y ago

This is beside the point, as bbx was saying that he preferred Gmail's UI over something new; the new thing living in a browser wouldn't really affect that :)

CodeMage12y ago

I'm not arguing with @bbx, I'm replying to your assumption that when @eloisant wrote "email client" he meant "native app email client" ;)

I was trying to express my belief that neither @bbx nor @eloisant were wrong: a browser extension implementing a generic e-mail client that talks to servers using IMAP might be a really good solution. I would certainly like to try using something like that.

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