Thanks to a fairly decent set of smarts the app could handle multiple accounts, do unified inboxes, mail snoozing, undo send, and a bunch other stuff.Īs a cross-platform app based on Electron, sporting an attractive, modern UI and support fort all sorts of themes and extensions, I am sad to see the app retire from its potential.īut, on the flip, despite writing about the app a couple of times on this site I won’t pretend that I used it full-time. Nylas Mail was (I guess still is, but I can’t be bothered keeping track of tenses in this heatwave) a cross-platform desktop email client built using the world’s most popular application development framework, Electron. I would ask if you’re upset, but you’re probably still trying to remember what Nylas N1… Sorry, Nylas Mail is. If you’re a developer, or you know some developers interested in email or Electron applications, we encourage forks of the Nylas Mail project.” If you have a subscription for N1 or Nylas Pro, those will continue to work. While we no longer provide help support, N1 and Nylas Mail will continue working just as they do today – we are not turning them off any time in the forseeable future. As a company, Nylas is focused on our API products to help other developers build email, calendar, and sync capabilities into their own applications. “Unfortunately, we are no longer providing help support for Nylas Mail or N1. Their response, minus the hi’s and goodbye’s reads: And since N1 also supports themes, I was even able to give it a Mailbox-type look with Tiaga.Nylas N1… or is it just Nylas Mail now? I can’t remember, and to be honest, it doesn’t really matter because, we learn today, the app is dead - deader than Ubuntu Phone on launch (too soon?).ĭon’t believe me? Read the following terse, but appreciably direct, e-mail the company sent to a Nylas Mail user - yup, it actually had some - who got in touch with a support query. There aren’t too many available yet, though I found a couple that were quite useful. And if you don’t, you can install someone else’s plug-in. Much like Google’s Chrome browser changed the way we surf with a variety of extensions and plug-ins, N1 can be extended and customized to your heart’s content, provided you know your way around JavaScript. As a full open-source project, the community can offer endless feature requests and issues (as well as tinker with the code directly), but more than that, N1 is designed to be modified. I’ve never used an email client (or any app, really) that pushed meaningful updates so regularly, and based on the ambitious N1 roadmap shared on Trello, the frequency isn’t about to slow down anytime soon.Īnd it’s not just Nylas that can make N1 better. In fact, over the short time I’ve been using N1 I’ve gotten three updates, each of which fixed bugs and offered noticeable improvements while also bringing new features. And another that added a tiny print button. N1 features a clean interface and updates are available regularly.īut then an update came through that cleared up the problem. It was like the opposite of Inbox Zero and I was ready to write N1 off as just another flawed email client. I had 22 unread messages the first time I fired N1 up, but even after I cleared them out, the app continued to tell me they were there so if I had 10 unread messages it would tell me there were 32, and neither quitting nor resetting was able to help. But the biggest annoyance was syncing with my iCloud account. My first few days with the app were filled with frustration: there was no way to print, switching between accounts caused crashing and there was no way to unify my Inbox. I was initially attracted to its looks, but since I’ve gotten to know it, I couldn’t be more excited for our future together.īut while I adored its panel layout and typography choices, N1 and I didn’t make an instant connection. Built by Nylas’ team of developers to showcase its next-generation email platform, it’s everything I want in a client: compatibility, customization and cleanliness. N1 and since it’s open source (and published on GitHub), it promises to never be bought and shut down.
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