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"If you are building a product, please don't do a mac-only release"

See, that's why it would be web-based, to not tie it down to any OS. I'm held tight in the Apple ecosystem and I'm actively looking for web-based solutions as opposed to local ones just on the off-chance I might want to make the jump one day to something else

I agree that all web-based mail clients are pretty low. Gmail/Outlook/other clearly-developed alternatives are good, but they also have native counterparts

Given a high-quality (good UX, etc.) web-based client would be available, would you consider switching?

progressive web app it is then! thanks for the comment, definitely helpful since I'm stuck in my ways with love for running everything through Chrome

Would you use a web-based email client where, with one login, you can access all three addresses? Not in a unified inbox, but have them as separates. Say the "cmd+1" keyboard shortcut is instantly switching to address #1, cmd +2 is switching to address #2 and so on...

Would you use a web-based email client where, with one login, you can access all three addresses?

Not in a unified inbox, but have them as separates. Say the "cmd+1" keyboard shortcut is instantly switching to address #1, cmd +2 is switching to address #2 and so on...

Oh? I assumed web-based email is superior to a client installed on your machine since it's... in the cloud as opposed to local.

I can see you're not thinking of it that way. What's your underlying thought on web-based email vs local client?

Are you using Gmail?

I did try that personally but the fact that it was POP3 and not IMAP put me off... I believe they do that because they sell G Suite and you'd have to get that if you'd want IMAP and easy-switch

Would you use a web-based email client where, with one login, you can access all three addresses?

Not in a unified inbox, but have them as separates. Say the "cmd+1" keyboard shortcut is instantly switching to address #1, cmd +2 is switching to address #2 and so on...

Would you use a web-based email client where, with one login, you can access all 5 addresses?

Not in a unified inbox, but have them as separates. Say the "cmd+1" keyboard shortcut is instantly switching to address #1, cmd +2 is switching to address #2 and so on...

Would you use a web-based email client where, with one login, you can access all 3 addresses?

Not in an unified inbox, but have them as separates. Say the "cmd+1" keyboard shortcut is instantly switching to address #1, cmd +2 is switching to address #2 and so on...

When you're on a computer, do you access all these individually from the browser?

If you'd switch your phone, does the need to sync the display names and signatures bother you? That, and the need to log in manually to all these 6 addresses?

So how many do email addresses would you need to access if, say, you're on a vacation and you're using the hotel iMacs (or whatever desktops they have there).

When you get a new phone/laptop/work computer/etc, do you set up all these 2/3/4 email addresses you actually use, making sure the display names and signatures are synced?

Would you use a web-based email client where, with one login, you can access all email addresses you care about? Not in an unified inbox, but have them as separates.

Say cmd+1 is quickly switching to address #1, cmd +2 is switching to address #2 and so on...

Haha, no worry, nothing sounded arrogant.

Instead of doing all that stuff and getting your hands dirty with AWS and .tar .gz etc., would you use a web-based email client where, with one login, you can access to all your email addresses?

Not in an unified inbox, but have them as separates. Say cmd+1 is quickly switching to address #1, cmd +2 is switching to address #2 and so on...

When you'd be switching devices, you'd just log in once and get access to all of them.

Would you use that?

If you switch devices, do you just login with Fastmail once and everything is synced? Or do you have to sync details such as display name+signatures again?

Thanks for clarifying everything — because of the info you've given me, I can ask you a question that would usually come after some back-and-forth:

Would you use a web-based email client where, with one login, you can access the relevant ones? Not in an unified inbox, but have them as separates.

Say you add all of them but disable notifications on address #4 and set notification rules for #5.

As a consequence, you wouldn't need to forward #3 to #2.

You've given me a lot of info (thanks for that) so I can ask you a question that would usually come "down the line".

Especially since you're cross-platform (mac mini, windows, iphone), would you use a web-based email client where, with one login, you can access all these 6? Not in an unified inbox, but have them as separate.

Essentially Apple Mail Client but in the browser.

You're the perfect person I can asked an "advanced" question since you're using a unified inbox.

Would you see an improvement in having a web-based mail client where, with one login, you can access and quickly switch between all these addresses' inboxes?

So you're mainly using... 2 to 4 if I counted that right?

What do you do when you get a new device? Do you have to sync the signatures and display names again manually?

If you change devices or get a new device, do you need to set everything you've set up in Heirloom again? Or it's all synced?

What do you do if you get a new device? Is it painful to set these things up across your devices? They'd need to have the same signature, display name etc.

If you get a new device, do you just login with your fastmail.com and everything is synced (display names, signatures etc) or do you need to set up these things again?

I see. How do you manage access them? Mail client or browser?

When you switch devices, do you set these addresses up all over again? How do you deal with syncing display names, signatures etc, if so?

When you switch devices, do you set these addresses all over again? How do you deal with syncing display names, signatures etc, if so?

If you say open-source I believe it's safe to assume it's a fully free helpdesk system, right?

So do you access this system through the browser? If you change the device, there's no initial time investment to set all these up, right?

Wow, that's interesting. If you change your device (phone/tablet/desktop/laptop), do you have to set them all up again? Set them all up = log in, sync signatures, display name etc.

How do you access these email addresses anyways? I think it's safe to assume you're not paying a G Suite subscription for each of them...

When you say email provider, is that an Exchange account? Or just roundcube/free thing from your custom domain?

What do you use to read/send emails? And did I get it right that you only have two now i.e. custom domain and the gmail one?

Frankly, I'm just thankful for this post and the comments here

Hi J, maker here. I would love to death to have pitches from those who have failed to raise money as that would actually fix the "survivorship bias" for raising money.

What we put there would be eliminating the bias for... running a company I guess. Thanks for adding the comment, it was what I had in mind when we added Theranos.

In fact, maybe Theranos teaches us what kind of behaviour/talk "slips" through VCs, thus making us understand how we, the founders, will pick the VCs. I know, not a popular opinion for US to pick VCs — but we need to start spreading this idea of selectivity.

Not stupid selectivity ("I deserve this. Give me that"), but rather the one that makes us weed out those who don't have the acumen to tell between Theranos, a fraud, and a real startup

Sequoia didn't invest in Theranos. Index, Benchmark or Andreessen Horowitz didn't.

Maybe we can learn from Theranos' deck how we can pluck out those VCs.