Switching to the Nylas N1 Email Client
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I have been using web mail for quite some time, mostly because Outlook is so horrible. I've decided to give the open source, cross platform Nylas N1 email client a look see and maybe switch to a local client. I'm on Linux Mint but N1 runs on Windows and Mac as well. On Linux it is available as an RPM or a DEB package, so pretty much anyone can use it easily. Installation was a breeze.
First I am setting up my NTG Office 365 email account. Holy cow is this a breeze. Setting this up was significantly easier than setting up even Outlook 2013! This is the most impressive connection to Exchange and Office 365 I have seen yet!
It's only been a few minutes but this thing is impressive already.
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I have several accounts with GMail, I'm curious how it would handle it...
Being on snow watch, I'll look at it when I spin things up.
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Here too, about to start testing them as well.
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First Google Apps account added. So far it is working great. And I love the dark theme, too.
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Something I believe you fail to mention which is very important, is that this mail client is not a regular mail client. In fact, this program, the N1, is a client for an online service built by Nylas, which happen to be a mail server on steroid used by this program to sync.
So what is happening in reality, is that you allow the company behind N1 to directly access your mail and manage it for you.
There is a server you can download and use to sync the client with, but that's another story and a whole more steps to get it working. -
Good point, I'm using the public servers and not running my own locally. You could, I believe, run one locally for an entire company without needing one for each user?
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I am going to have to give this a try. Been looking for a good Linux based Exchange/o365 client.
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@brianlittlejohn sadly you can't self host exchange
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@anonymous said:
@brianlittlejohn sadly you can't self host exchange
Yes you can. Exchange Server is a huge product from Microsoft.
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@coliver I mean on N1
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@anonymous I got the windows N1 client to connect to our locally installed Exchange Server
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@brianlittlejohn Then your not using a local sync engine
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The open-source Nylas Sync Engine does not support Exchange, but the hosted version does.
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@anonymous Ok, so If I just download the client, it uses their hosted sync agent to talk to my exchange server, then push it back down to the n1 client?
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I'm still trying to understand what sucks so much about Outlook. confused
The lack of tags instead of folders seems to be the biggest thing.
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@brianlittlejohn That's correct. You now have a middle man, who could is theory read your mail.
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@Dashrender You have to install it.
We need a web client that has all the same features as outlook that is free and open source.
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@Dashrender also, remember that @scottalanmiller is a full time linux using now
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@Dashrender I'm just looking for an Outlook replacement for Linux. I use outlook as my everyday client.
