Comments on How to set up and use Nylas N1 Email Client on Linux

Does it still transfers all your emails through the N1 company servers or allows you to connect directly the email client with your account?

As far as I know, all emails go through N1 company servers (Nylas). The speed with which the changes are reflected between the two (client, webmail) is actually very quick. Security-wise, it's an(other) issue. 

Something I believe you fail to mention which is very important, is that this mail client is not a regular mail client. In fact, this program, the N1, is a client for an online service built by Nylas, which happen to be a mail server on steroid used by this program to sync.

So what is happening in reality, is that you allow the company behind N1 to directly access your mail and manage it for you.

There is a server you can download and use to sync the client with, but that's another story and a whole more steps to get it working.

Well, I allow a company to manage my emails anyway and it's called Google. With N1, it becomes a company inception. :)

"Something I believe you fail to mention which is very important, is that this mail client is not a regular mail client. In fact, this program, the N1, is a client for an online service built by Nylas, which happen to be a mail server on steroid used by this program to sync."

Yikes, leaving out that detail makes me mistrust the entire article.

At no point was it pointed out that a 3rd party would have full access to my account. 

Since email userid/password matches my shell userid/password, this leaves your system open for other to browse. At no point does this article warn you of that fact nor does it discuss their security in keeping your passwords away from prying eyes.

Nylas does encrypt the data of each account. At least that's what they state https://nylas.com/security .Whether you trust them on this or not is another case. 

Forgot to mention something ? The last thing we need is another online server to store our emails. Very bad idea 

I have my own server, so just concentrate on doing the best email client and let people decide what server they want to use. 

Given the lack of transparency in this "article" it seems clear that this is really advertising masquerading as a howto article.  Maybe the mods should remove it?

This is not a sponsored article. I understand your privacy concerns and we added a note in the article that this email client uses a cloud service to store passwords and access your email accounts.

"you allow the company behind N1 to directly access your mail and manage it for you"

So even if you are using your own private e-mail server at home, it is definitely not a good idea to use this e-mail client if you are a Secretary of State  ;+}

The fact that by using this software all your emails including the login credentials are stored on a remote server (and in the US, a completely different jurisdiction from Europe non the less, which enables law enforcement to seize your emails without a court order, encrypted or not), would usually merit a huge disclaimer in front of the article. The point that the author displays a rather cavalier attitude towards trusting third parties with his data raises several red flags immediately. Not everyone feels as comfortable potentially giving away access to all their electronic communication to a foreign government that easily.

This makes it pretty clear that the articles on this site are not screened by any kind of editorial process. Maybe many people have just quietly accepted the Zuckerberg doctrine of "the default is open". Whatever it is, at the very least it should still be assumed that users would want to keep their data to themselves.

We have an editorial process that checks articles for technical correctness. We don't have a policy that forbids articles about using free cloud services on Linux and software that relies on cloud services. I've added a note in the article to make sure that the reader is aware that this Email client (unlike Thunderbird or Kmail) stores data on the servers of it's vendor.

Can't tell how this is any better than something like Thunderbird, which handles mail, newsgroups, etc nice and efficiently.  Have looked at various other email clients, and have yet to see one that can do the job any better than (or often even as well as) Thunderbird.  In addition, when you say "clean and modern", does that mean it looks like those abominations known as "Material Design" or "Metro" (or whatever Apple is calling their own particular fugly implementation of the "FlatUI")?  If so, then I most *definitely* don't want it.

What is the LinuxDistro / Theme you are using there, please? I like it. 

Hi, guys. Well, in my case it doesn't work. I'm tryied to sync with my Gmail account, but nothing happened. It's the messange that appears: Nothing to display. What I do?!

Thanks so much!

I'm on Kubuntu 16 x64 and just installed N1 today. I'm having the same issue. It's a bug that several people are experiencing. You can add you details tot he issue on Github if you'd like. Here's the link: https://github.com/nylas/N1/issues/2476

If you send me the code for a FREE year service...c'mon...don't ask for my banking details soon as I try to log in with that very code .

Nah...sorry,just too shady.

 Your desktop is so beautiful.

I want to try it. Please tell me its name? How could I get it?

It looks like ElementaryOS (Linux) the Loki version with the Pantheon Desktop.  :)

Looks good, but...!!! 

I tested this email client for few mounts ago. Just for a while... It is imporant for me to have many accounts in one email client. So I tried to set about 10 email accounts from diferrent servers. This was big fail. My inbox folders are full with Nylas spam messages.

So, you will automatically agree with spam recieving with installation of this email client ...

How to install it in arch linux?