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Can you tell me what is wrong with gmail? It seems to check all your boxes.

I prefer desktop clients (even the horrible electron things that pass as such these days), and I'm not thrilled with gmails UI which I find a bit cluttered and frustrating. It also doesn't support email snoozing, which I love.

Google Inbox is a better UI, but goes too far the other way towards wasting too much space. It's also missing some key features, and is still not a desktop client.

Also, neither one of them supports showing emails from multiple gmail accounts in a single inbox (unless you just blindly forward emails from one to the other, which you can do, but I'd rather avoid).

I recognize I'm being very picky here; mostly what I just want is Dropbox's Mailbox app, but they killed that off long ago, much to my eternal disappointment.

I think I'm not sure what you mean by "snoozing emails" ? Isn't it just muting for a few minutes the alerts you'd get ? Just to clarify for me.

Snoozing emails removes them from your inbox for a set amount of time.

Imagine you read emails in an unread folder, where read emails disappear. This basically would functionally mark them as read until a preset amount of time passes, then they show up as unread again. It's a bit like that, only in your inbox itself.

It's not actually a part of the email specifications, but some people seem to like it.

Thank you. And why does it seem to require a third party server ?

Obvious implementation: use IMAP to create a folder, snooze-$timestamp. Move messages there. Every so often, check the snooze-$timestamp folders and present every one where the timestampt has expired as part of the unread group. Delete empty folders.

> - It still has the same great pro features, like snoozing and send later, but doesn't send your email credentials to Mailspring servers. All of these features have been re-implemented to run locally on your computer.

It doesn't require a third-party server. Nylas did do it that way, but Mailspring aren't. It's local.

Yeah, it seems easy enough to do client side unless one wants it to be synchronized across devices. Then, I imagine it'd be easy for the email provider to do, though it'd need client support or to be in the browser.

> It's also missing some key features

I'm curious, such as what?

Gmail has limited support for multiple email addresses. For people like me with a lot of inboxes it isn't sufficient. There is also a pretty significant delay on any non main account addresses.

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