Faster way to do emails
Every one wants to do faster emails now! — but why? that is an altogether different question, as in, why would any one want a lite-help-desk-software for managing emails?
But hey Hey.com[1]
To every one who is eagerly waiting to get an invite from Hey.com
If your question is: How is this problem being solved now? How are power email users managing emails?
Want to try new way of doing emails, have some time to burn, want to have fun:
Why not try Mutt? [2]
It is free under General Public License, been there since 1995.Refer [5][6]
Typical Mutt setup:
Your fav terminal > Mutt > Vim[3] > GnuPG[4]
In a way, it is a faster way to do emails:
* Entirely command line.
* Plain text only
* Key bindings that you can learn and master
* Configure your favourite editor to compose(a good opportunity to learn Vim)
* GPG end-to-end encryption support
Caveats
* Take just minutes to get it up and running, but configuring perfectly will a be work in progress.[4]
* High learning curve, but hey any thing worth doing is.
[1] https://hey.com/
[2] http://www.mutt.org/
[3] https://www.vim.org/
[4] https://gnupg.org/
[5] https://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/
[6] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mutt
[7] Mutt in action: Video
After thoughts:
Quoting Hey.com from this link:
Either they rely on everyone using the same service/app (good luck converting everyone you email with to use the same setup as you!). Or the emails aren’t really emails, but links to a website where the encryption is then applied. Or you use a clunky external tool to encrypt and decrypt the messages (like PGP). This really only works if you’re willing to give up on email as we commonly understand it. If you absolutely must have end-to-end encrypted email, checkout something like ProtonMail.
This posturing, I don’t understand, Hey.com’s narrative is don’t believe in Google, but believe us, why should anyone? — without end-to-end encryption.
Users must control the encryption. That is why end-to-end encryption(PGP) works and has been around for more than 25 years.
PGP is a difficult concept to grasp at first, but once you wrap your head around it, you’ll feel more liberated and safe.
It is not clunky? Is terminal window clunky?
For anyone who wants to try PGP on a mac try GPGtools.
They have made a commendable job of making encryption and decryption of emails, and files easy.
This is how GPG integrated email looks on the native Apple mail client.
All emails are encrypted and signed using GPG. You own the encryption keys.
Encrypt and decrypt files, folders and disks with a click