Nylas Mail v3 [Unnamed]

High level Goals:

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.
  • One C++ process per email account.
  • C++ and JS communicate via the child process stdin/stdout streams.
  • JS application queues tasks but has read-only access to the database.
  • JS application should not install timers or wake /at all/ when idle. 0% battery impact when idle.
• Improve performance of the thread list and composer contenteditable.
• Make windows open faster by just having less code.
• Bring back mail rules.

New features:

• Receipts
• Templates with per-template performance tracking
• Groups
• Files

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Nylas Mail - the open-source, extensible mail client

Nylas Mail is an open-source mail client built on the modern web with Electron, React, and Flux. It is designed to be extensible, so it's easy to create new experiences and workflows around email. Want to learn more? Check out the full documentation.

Want to help build the future of email? Nylas is hiring!

Download Nylas Mail

You can download compiled versions of Nylas Mail for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (.deb) from https://nylas.com/download. You can also build and run Nylas Mail (Previously N1) on Fedora. On Arch Linux, you can install n1 or n1-git from the aur.

Build A Plugin

Plugins lie at the heart of Nylas Mail and give it its powerful features. Building your own plugins allows you to integrate the app with other tools, experiment with new workflows, and more. Follow the Getting Started guide to write your first plugin in five minutes. To create your own theme, go to our Theme Starter guide.

If you would like to run the N1 source and contribute, check out our contributing guide.

Themes

The Nylas Mail user interface is styled using CSS, which means it's easy to modify and extend. Nylas Mail comes stock with a few beautiful themes, and there are many more which have been built by community developers

Bundled Themes

• Dark
• Darkside (designed by Jamie Wilson)
• Taiga (designed by Noah Buscher)
• Ubuntu (designed by Ahmed Elhanafy)
• Less Is More (designed by Alexander Adkins)

Community Themes

• Arc Dark
• Predawn
• ElementaryOS
• Ido—Polymail-inspired theme
• Solarized Dark
• Berend
• LevelUp
• Sunrise
• ToogaBooga
• Material
• Monokai
• Agapanthus—Inbox-inspired theme
• Stripe
• [Kleinstein] (https://github.com/diklein/Kleinstein)—Hide the account list sidebar
• BoraBora
• Honeyduke
• Snow
• Hull
• Express
• DarkSoda
• Bemind
• Dracula
• MouseEatsCat
• Sublime Dark
• Firefox
• Gmail
• Darkish

To install community themes:

1. Download and unzip the repo
2. In Nylas Mail, select Developer > Install a Package Manually...
3. Navigate to where you downloaded the theme and select the root folder. The theme is copied into the ~/.nylas-mail folder for your convinence
4. Select Change Theme... from the top level menu, and you'll see the newly installed theme. That's it!

Want to dive in more? Try creating your own theme!

Plugin List

We're working on building a plugin index that makes it super easy to add them to Nylas Mail. For now, check out the list below! (Feel free to submit a PR if you build a plugin and want it featured here.)

Bundled Plugins

Great starting points for creating your own plugins!

• Translate—Works with 10 languages
• Quick Replies—Send emails faster with templates
• Emoji Keyboard—Insert emoji by typing a colon (:) followed by the name of an emoji symbol
• GitHub Sidebar Info
• View on GitHub
• Personal Level Indicators
• Phishing Detection

Community Plugins

Note these are not tested or officially supported by Nylas, but we still think they are really cool! If you find bugs with them, please open GitHub issues on their individual project pages, not the Nylas Mail (N1) repo page. Thanks!

• Jiffy—Insert animated GIFs
• Weather
• Todoist
• Unsubscribe
• Squirt Speed Reader
• Website Launcher—Opens a URL in separate window
• In Development: Cypher (PGP Encryption)
• Avatars
• Events Calendar (WIP)
• Mail in Chat (WIP)
• Evernote
• Wunderlist
• Participants Display
• GitHub

When you install packages, they're moved to ~/.nylas-mail/packages, and Nylas Mail runs apm install on the command line to fetch dependencies listed in the package's package.json

Configuration

You can configure Nylas Mail in a few ways—for instance, pointing it to your self-hosted instance of the sync engine or changing the interface zoom level. Learn more about how.

Feature Requests / Plugin Ideas

Have an idea for a package or a feature you'd love to see in Nylas Mail? Search for existing GitHub issues and join the conversation!