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by karim 3439 days ago
Hey – I'm an engineer at Nylas. This used to be true but Nylas Mail now uses a totally client-side sync engine.

If you're on the Basic edition, your emails never touch our servers. This was a huge undertaking (it's not easy to port a sync-engine written in Python and designed to run on servers to run efficiently on desktop machines) and is the major reason why we can now offer a freemium service. We're going to put out a blog post soon with more engineering details soon!

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> We're going to put out a blog post soon with more engineering details soon!

Looking forward to it!

I think for this audience, this blog post raises more questions than it answers.

I'm a student, I can't justify $12pm (or $7pm) for an email client however good it is - but I'll gladly use the Basic version and continue contributing; pay a little back that way :)

That's awesome to hear. However I see Nylas still is requesting full "view and manage your mail" OAuth permissions server-side. Is that something that can go away?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s37onyv41w91zi0/Screenshot%202017-...