 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel today. I'm gonna be looking at an application called mail spring now Normally, I probably wouldn't look at this map this application on the channel because Prior to now it wasn't actually completely open source. It was just mostly open source there's some proprietary bits in there and I usually try to focus solely on fossil fossil stuff here on my channel, but recently the Developer of mail spring has taken the app completely gpl. So which is great. I love when programs that were previously Proprietary or partially proprietary in this case go open source and it's something that I you know like to you know, cheer out Whenever it happens. So rah rah As about as much cheering as you're gonna get out of me But anyways, what is mail spring mail spring basically is just a mail client. So It has some quirks and stuff that you have to get used to and The biggest one being that it requires a mail spring account. So If that's going to turn you away, you probably can just stop watching because it requires it you cannot actually access a email account in mail spring without A mail spring account. So they do require you to have that and that's kind of annoying Uh, but if that's really annoying, why would you use it and the the answer that is that is very Very well designed. So it it actually looks like a piece of apple software is the way I would put it Let's actually just go ahead and look at what this what this is So this right here is mail spring now. This isn't the way it comes out of the box It has some themes which I'll show you in a minute But basically this is just a well designed piece of software and it's very functional So You know if it has inline reply, so if I wonder I mean, this is just a youtube You know email or whatever, but I could you know just in line reply here So it also has Cool things like read receipts. So when you send an email and the person who received your email reads it You'll get a little notification saying hey, so and so read your email. That's cool It has the same thing for link tracking. So basically if you send them a link and they click on the link You'll know that they've clicked on the link. So basically this is a great way to have your colleagues Or to monitor your colleagues or your employees knowing that that they're actually Reading and interacting with your email. It's a little creepy, but it's cool You can I believe disable that if you're not interested in spying on people you send emails to there's also built-in integration for google and imf and all the stuff that you'd expect For an email client, which is you know, it's just standard if it didn't have it then it'd be more notable Beyond the design It does have a ton of different preferences that you can change And it's very you know, it's very Apple-like in its design in terms of settings and stuff too because it has a ton of stuff that you can just a little Just little tweaks and stuff you can change the you know the appearance and Do a whole bunch of stuff with the keyboard shortcuts, which is really cool You can create mail rules and folders and signatures and so on just the normal stuff you do with an email client now I did mention another annoying thing You can only have four email addresses associated with your mail spam account If you don't pay now I don't mind a developer making money I don't like subscription services. I just want to be able to pay you for your You know your application. Let me pay Five bucks. I don't care and choose a number. It doesn't matter, but for in this case I get to go with the right thing eight dollars a month now That's not a big thing and people will spend that much money on coffee or whatever, but it's annoying I don't want to pay eight dollars a month for my email client. I just don't So that that's probably the most that's probably the thing that would keep me from using this full time is that I have more than four email things and I don't really want to pay eight dollars a month now if I like I said charge me Allow me to You know do a lifetime payment. I want to buy this thing for a lifetime I don't even if it's like a hundred bucks. I would probably do it, you know, because it's good Um, I think this is probably the most well designed email client for linux You can do a lot of stuff with like thunderbird stuff to make it look good But otherwise it's very complicated and clutchy Geary is very much integrated with the genome aesthetic So you can do a lot of theming and stuff like that, but it looks like it belongs and you know evolution Kind of the same way with with uh, you know with geary It looks like it belongs in a gtk application. This Looks like it belongs in a macintosh. Yeah, so That may be a good or good bad thing for you because if you rest your system doesn't look like it's you know belongs on a mac Then, you know, this would kind of stand out, but otherwise You know, I just really like the look of it. So let's go ahead and look at the website here The the website is fairly basic allows you to download and stuff and shows you the pro feature So if you pay eight dollars a month you get Template support rich contact profiles Uh follow-up reminders read receipts, which I thought you got that in the free version Maybe that maybe you used to give it get it in the free version Hmm Maybe the change that I don't know delayed send company overviews news messages and and more you can also Somewhere it says that you can go through and I think it's actually in Here You're using mail spring basic, which is free. You can look up to four email accounts. Yeah So that means in order to get more than four you have to subscribe, which is fine like I said subscription Plans are just a personal pre to me because There's just so many of them. I can't I'm gonna pay for netflix disney plus, you know Whatever, there's just so many things that by the time you're done with them You're spending, you know, 200 a month on subscription services and and rant anyways It's really nice website. You can also see the code and stuff right here on github, which I'll also link in the video description So if you're into auditing code, then you'll will notice that this is a fork of nihilus mail I actually don't think nihilus is still being developed and it is not it hasn't been updated in three years So it is a fork of that it's by one of the original authors of nihilus So they kind of have the same vision for what nihilus was so if you use nihilus in the past It's kind of the same thing only this is now Completely open source and this I know it's completely open source because they did a blog post night Which I will also link today I'm excited to announce that I am open sourcing mail sync and c++ 11 core mail spring that performs email sync Under the same gpl v3 license used by the rest of that making mail spring entirely open source That's just great news. Um, so Really, that's all I really wanted to talk about for this The mail spring you can download it from github you can download it from you know snap It's in the a u r obviously because everything's in the a u r. I mean come on people The a u r is awesome So I would just say give this a download if you're looking for an email client. That's not thunderbird This is a very good option and it's pretty like I said It has some annoying things like I do not care for the fact that you have to sign up for it Even if you give the free version you still have to give them an account. That's annoying It would be different. Okay, so let let me just put this It would be different if by signing up for that account. It remembers your account details and stuff So you sign into mail spring and remembered all the accounts you've signed into under that like all your gmail stuff and just inputted it and Bam you're out of the date. So you only have to sign in one time It doesn't do that It just requires you to sign in and then you still have to sign into your email accounts Every time you you know reinstall mail spring and that's It makes me ponder why they need My email address or they require me to have an account, right? So what are they doing with that information? It's a little It worries me a bit I don't really care. I don't really mind having an account, but I wanted to have some functionality Some kind of return, you know for them having my email address. I want a return for that like Sinking my accounts or something. I don't know literally anything Some kind of benefit for them having forced me to create an account which is As of right now, there's no benefit for me that I've had a created account for mail spring It's just the way it is. All right. 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