Show HN: Open source mobile email client built with HTML/CSS/JS

16 pointsnicholasreed13 years ago6 comments

Hey HN,

I've been working on an email client and wanted to get some feedback!

Minimail is built on Phonegap, so it uses HTML/CSS/JS for everything user-facing. The app also uses emailbox (a related project of mine) as the backend API for receiving/parsing/sending emails.

I think email clients need a huge UX/UI overhaul, and so I'm trying to build a flexible/hackable email client that anyone can customize to fit their email workflow.

Thanks for any feedback!

Website: https://minimail.herokuapp.com/

Email: nick (at) getemailbox.com

martey 13y

I do not think that you should claim that this is open source [1] when you have not decided on a license to release it under [2].

[1] http://opensource.org/docs/osd

[2] https://github.com/emailbox/minimail_mobileapp/issues/1

nicholasreedOP13y

Totally right. I'll get the license sorted out asap.

welder 13y

Thanks for sharing. Could you describe these 2 features in more detail?

1) Stop receiving notifications, and read Leisure emails on your down time.

2) Pretend an email arrives at a different time

nicholasreedOP13y

Sure:

1) You can create a filter for Leisure emails, and then when emails arrive that meet the conditions you won't receive a Push Notification, and the emails will be grouped together (like a single thread).

2) You can delay an email for a period of time (a few hours, tomorrow, next week) and a reason (need to reply, waiting for a response), and when that time arrives you'll get another Push Notification and the Thread will show up as a priority.

welder 13y

These 2 features seem like a huge time saver. If they are the star features you should make them the focus of your landing page. Just one guy's opinion.

nicholasreedOP13y

Clickable: https://minimail.herokuapp.com/

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