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30 points| snake_case | 11 years ago |mailpile.is

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[+] SwellJoe|11 years ago|reply
So, it reloads the whole page on every email view? I don't mean to pick nits, but that's a pretty big disappointment, in terms of UI responsiveness. It's "double-click wait double-click wait double-click wait"; I expect email to be really freaking fast. My local mail clients (Geary and Thunderbird are my preference) are fast. One of my webmail clients is fast (GMail); the webmail project I help maintain (Usermin) isn't particularly fast, but it's a lot faster than this (and only reloads the mail div or frame, depending on the theme in use).

I understand the desire for a more secure mail client...but, I'm not sure this is dramatically more secure than existing mail clients that support mail encryption (all of the ones I've mentioned above support GPG encryption, except GMail, maybe?). Admittedly this client seems to support encryption of the entire mail store, which is cool, and something I should think about adding to Usermin.

I'm afraid this project put out a lot more hype than was warranted. They've been at this for how long?

[+] HerraBRE|11 years ago|reply
The UI will become more AJAXy before 1.0, we're doing it progressively instead of making the whole thing JS only. So we get the UI working as a static page, and then progressively enhance. If you want to see it in action, you can try `plugins/load autoajax` on the CLI and see a lot of things go much, much faster. It's not done though, so lots of functionality breaks, which is why it is not yet the default.

Regarding the security stuff - supporting GPG is one thing. Making it usable is an entirely different beast, one which most mail clients have more or less failed at so far.

Sorry you feel disappointed (or are you just pissing on the competition?), but it turns out that this project is actually a rather large task.

We've been working roughly full time for about a year and a half, most of the time with one programmer (myself) for all the low level tech stuff (security, mail handling, packaging, you name it) and one person to do UI design and interface work. Life got in the way of our third team member contributing a lot of code, I'm afraid.

[+] chrissnell|11 years ago|reply
I'm not sure where you'd run this. Most cloud compute providers intentionally list their network blocks on blacklists to reduce their attractiveness to spammers. Some consumer-class broadband providers do the same and some even block inbound port 25. There's also the issue of reputation-based classification of incoming email at the major providers--you may not do well against those measures using this.
[+] iancarroll|11 years ago|reply
Mailpie seems to be a webmail client, and only that. Thus, inbound blocking doesn't matter, only outbound.
[+] tuananh|11 years ago|reply
There is a folder in bookmark bar named "Web Shiz" in the screenshot