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That's worth upvotes for the effort alone, thanks. :)

> Surprisingly >99% of users have a flat hierarchy

You tend to end up with it only after really long-term usage. All the folders with sub-folders i have got them after they got too big to be just one, e.g. "Perl coding stuff" has several subs, "Shopping", "Clients", "Computer Game Emails", etc. Some clients have additional subs. All started out as a singular one though.

> threads, not singular mails

Ok, fair enough.

> labels auto-learning by drag&drop ... AFAIK there is no cross-platform mail client that does this today beyond things like manual Gmail filters

Opera M2 does it extremely well since ~2000. Google Inbox does it ... eh. Mobile and PC, none, right. The filtering is honestly super easy to implement. It's a bayesian filter. In older email clients those were used to filter out spam. Opera M2 simply gives each folder one (user-configurable) and runs all the filters on each mail that comes in.

And to be fully honest here, i still use Opera 12 as my main browser, along with its mail client and don't see myself jumping ship ... anytime really since for me the combination of mail client and browser is key. However to respect an email client i expect it to be a feature match to Opera M2 at least.

Not interested in Slack. If you had an IRC channel tough i wouldn't need to sacrifice a chicken and a CPU core. :)

> UI

Ok, that looks fine. I personally prefer to have the email below the mail list, but that's not a huge thing. Maybe an option to consider. Screenshot mode is cute. :)




You can actually join the chat via IRC/XMPP. No chicken sacrifice required! :P https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-t...

I haven't tried Opera M2-- I'll check it out. Might be a fun hackathon project to train a Bayesian filter on every folder and auto-suggest routing at least.

There was a big IBM Research study a few years ago that showed it's dramatically more efficient to search email versus categorizing messages into folders. Here's a link to the full paper: http://people.ucsc.edu/~swhittak/papers/chi2011_refinding_em...




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