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Supporting POP3 seems like an anti-feature in 2015.

It seems to me, that muddling its lack of features into the middle of an application that properly supports IMAP would make your internal api much more complex?

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Actually POP is easy except for efficiently determining what's changed in the mailbox since the last time you checked. And some providers still only offer POP access -- for example, Verizon.

From the outside, it looks like you have great engineering talent, but on the product management side you seem to lack some vision other than to cover backwards compatibility. This is frustrating to witness, even at a distance.

Perhaps I should clarify that I worked for a founder where we had this problem, and after a year almost of the engineers I started with had left. It was maddening, and I finally had to leave as well. The company was eventually sold for pennies on the dollar.

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