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Nylas Mail v3 [Unnamed] Nylas Mail v3 [Unnamed]
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**Hello! This is a significant fork of Nylas Mail which completely replaces JavaScript mail sync with a C++ core built on Mailcore2. Unfortunately, it's not ready for use - check back soon!**
High level Goals: High level Goals:
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Fix longstanding issues that have always bugged me or stopped me from using the mail client personally. Primarily poor performance with multiple linked accounts and jank in the composer.
- Replace JavaScript mail sync (client-sync package) and the Electron "worker window" with a new, high performance codebase written in C++ and based on Mailcore2. Make the Electron application just the UI layer. - Replace JavaScript mail sync (client-sync package) and the Electron "worker window" with a new, high performance codebase written in C++ and based on Mailcore2. Make the Electron application just the UI layer.
+ One C++ process per email account. + One C++ process per email account.
+ C++ and JS communicate via the child process stdin/stdout streams. + C++ and JS communicate via the child process stdin/stdout streams.
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- Make windows open faster by just having less code. - Make windows open faster by just having less code.
- Bring back mail rules. - Bring back mail rules.
New features:
Technical Breakdown of Changes:
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- Activity window and client-sync package removed.
- MailsyncBridge, a new singleton in the main window, manages C++ sync workers.
- DatabaseStore no longer provides an interface to write to the database from JavaScript and the following have moved to C++:
+ Database setup and migration
+ Search indexing of threads/contacts
+ Delta processing
+ Task processing
- Heavy node modules removed:
+ Bluebird
+ Q
+ request
+ etc...
- Package manager has been completely rewritten to be more performant and load packages in two phases.
- Delta serialization / deserialization performance has been dramatically improved by removing the JSON reviver.
- FileDownloadStore / FileUploadStore have been merged into AttachmentStore
Future Features:
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- Receipts - Receipts
- Templates with per-template performance tracking - Templates with per-template performance tracking
- Groups - Groups