Gmail - Find Emails That Never Got a Reply
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I prefer it to say having an entire folder of emails I haven't received replies on as it allows me to specifically manage messages that are important enough to require a non-replied reminder.
It's written in Go; there's no external dependency except a service that downloads emails to a Mailbox-type directory (I recommend offlineimap).
I've been dogfooding it myself for the last few months - I haven't actually "released" it officially yet, but if anybody is interested in beta testing it, I'd love some feedback.
When do the access to better features outweight the need of security?
If you use Mailbox, they actually temporarily hold on to your rebounce emails as well. Other email apps such as Skimbox, the emails are stored in their MongoDB server. Obviously the value of this 2 applications, granted they are still alive and used by folks, then the features > security concern. Not that they are compromising your messages anyway.
I am sure different people have different priorities. Just a curious question based on your findings.
Btw I also called myself an aspiring entrepreneur in most of my email introductions. I think its just my humble way of saying I am working on it and dedicated to growing - as oppose to being too boastful when asking for advice.
Find me @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/garyyauchan/
Also love to get your feedback for Hashtags for Email @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6948659
I guess if you're so busy you lose track of these things? But again...
In the end, not everyone's usage pattern is the same, and people end up using email for things other than direct communication (such as tracking future work items). While not ideal, for some it's easier than dealing with a completely separate application that integrates to various degrees.
I feel this pain.
Shameless plug: I wrote an open-source version of Boomerang/Followup.cc that is designed to be self-hosted, specifically because of this concern: https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/go-yo
(For the record: I like script in the original submission script, but for me, I rarely use the Gmail web interface, so I had to make something that works over IMAP).
It's still a WIP, but I've been using it myself for the "bounce-back" feature for the last several months.
There is that privacy/security issue though. I always look at web based email as being inherently insecure anyway.
Matt Galligan and I put together a version of the No Response Apps Script back in June also. It's more basic than this, but might be easier as a starting point for modification. https://script.google.com/d/11c63LM4rOTxCP5uqffLDhIaEQFmNo0p...
I've been loving Apps Script for things that are too lightweight to need something like Boomerang, with a server and a full browser extension, but heavy enough that you can't do it with a search string.