Sohel Sanghani

Canary Mail — Easy, elegant email for Mac

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Canary Mail is the mail app you need, security and features in one, wrapped up and delivered to you! There is a lot more you can do with it - everything is systematized, organized and with an easy User Experience!

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Sohel Sanghani
Hi PH, we're excited to be here again! Special thanks to Kate & Ben, for being very responsive and helpful! Canary is an exciting new email client for Mac that offers a full set of powerful features with one key difference - your emails are not stored on a 3rd party server. Every facet of Canary has been designed in accordance with our core philosophy of ensuring complete user privacy and offering reliable & snappy performance. Unlike other apps/services, using Canary is not contingent on providing access to your data. Over the last couple of months, we’ve worked closely with our amazing group of beta testers to continuously refine & enhance performance and UX to ensure that Canary is a joy to use. For a limited time, Product Hunt users can download and try the beta right away via our website! Website : http://canarymail.io Twitter : https://twitter.com/canarymailapp Slack (feedback / support - Tweet for an invite) : http://canarymail.slack.com Features: -Read Tracking -Snooze -Unified Inbox -Gmail Labels & Filters -Attachments Browser -Quick Reply -Powerful Search (that also works offline) -Universal IMAP Support (including Exchange EWS/OWA) P.S. - Canary for iOS is in the pipeline, launch date & signup details will be announced on Twitter shortly.
Htain Lin Shwe
@sohelsanghani Is it supporting filter the unread email only ? When I try the beta version before and that function is not included.
Sohel Sanghani
@saturngod Yes, it does now!
Nikola Novakovic
@sohelsanghani A quick question, why do when I click archive some mails get archived and some don't ? Maybe because I have over 250+ archived emails or ?
Sohel Sanghani
@novica93 Hi Nikola, please send us your email (Twitter DM?), so that we can invite and debug via Slack
Tom Masiero
@sohelsanghani Is scheduling on the road map?
Ben
Wowowow. Awesome work, you guys. Was just pulling out my hair a few days ago over the sad state of desktop mail clients, and voila, here you are. As for desktop clients, there are barely any contenders, and even among the best there are too many compromises. In my opinion, Canary nails most of what I want, and it does so with with panache. On a related note, I think it's silly that so many of the new mail app developers keep B-lining for mobile. Yes, everything is going mobile, but the mobile mail space is already super crowded, and the existing solutions are just fine. Apple's Mail app for iPhone isn't amazing, but it gets the job done, whereas Apple's Mail app for desktop is a buggy monstrosity. If you accept that mobile and desktop will probably merge at some point in the not-too-distant future, it makes sense to penetrate the market from the other angle (desktop), where the competition is small-time at best. Anyway, great job again, @sohelsanghani and team. Just made this my default mail client. P.S. The one thing Canary needs is an undo send feature. Super croosh.
Sohel Sanghani
@benbelser "Canary nails most of what (you) want, and it does so with with panache" makes for a great tagline 🙃 Glad to have you onboard, Ben! And yes, we're working on undo send.
Ben
@sohelsanghani Re. undo send: Woohoo! Glad to hear it. As for the tagline, you're very welcome. Keep up the good work!
Alex Barnes
Great job! I was using Polymail but the bugs added up and became too much of an issue for me. This mail app has been great for me --- no bugs so far, great interface, super fast and all the features I need. Well done!
Jonas Petermann
It is really a wonderful email client. Very fast, responsive and with tracking, auto-theme, attachement view etc. it has some great features. Can't wait to beta test the iOS version!
Imrat Jn
iOS just announced. About 250 free spots left. If you join via my link I'll get ahead in the queue 😉 @jonas_petermann https://maitreapp.co/l/1593-a7ab...
Desmond Duggan
Looks like a beautiful UI. I'm using Nylas and Polymail right now. Looks like everyone is aiming at the same feature set: read receipts, snooze, send later, etc. The one thing that isn't talked about a lot but is probably the single most important thing (as I'm realizing) is security. > How does Canary handle email to be secure? Data at rest / in transit policies, etc.
Sohel Sanghani
@desmondduggan2 Thanks Desmond! Canary uses SSL to connect securely to your email provider. The local database on your Mac is also encrypted. And most importantly, we do not ask for or store your credentials, access tokens and/or emails on our server - unlike many other new apps/services.
Desmond Duggan
@sohelsanghani That's great to hear! So all email is stored locally, very cool. How do you technically handle send later?
Sohel Sanghani
@desmondduggan2 We don't have Send Later yet - we'll add it only if we can do it well without a server component!
Steven Barragán
How do they make money? 😕
Sohel Sanghani
@steven_barragan1 Hi Steven, Canary is in beta currently, which is free to try. We'll have both free and paid versions when we launch on the App Store!
Simeon Vincent
@sohelsanghani @steven_barragan1 You might want to add that to the site. Honestly the first thing I looked for was "how is this app monetized." For core apps (email, calendar, etc) privacy, data security, and - by extension - monetization strategies are quite important to me.
Sohel Sanghani
@dotproto @steven_barragan1 Good point, will update the site with this info.
Ton
I'm a big, big fan of Canary Mail but I'm a bit confused as to what it is doing on the featured page of PH. I'm happily running the lastest beta-version 0.6 (123). Is that the official release? And what the heck does '2.0' mean? Has there been a version 1.0 that I have missed completely?
Sohel Sanghani
@t55 Hi Ton, we're still in beta! But since the app has been redesigned with a lot of new features since we were first featured on PH in Feb, this post is titled 2.0 (123 is the correct, latest version) 😊
Ton
@sohelsanghani Awwwright. That explains the 2.0. Just wondering what'll happen when Canary Mail 0.6 will turn 1.0. A whole lot of Googling I suspect :-)) Version numbers aside I'm looking forward to the Slack'd daily new features extravaganza of Canary Mail for iOS :)
Danny Fiorentini
For years I've been reluctant to use a desktop client for no particular reason, but I'm converting now! Everything has been great so far and I'm up and running. Questions: is there a way to make my Unreads "sticky" at the top? That seems to be my only request at the moment! Great work.
Sohel Sanghani
@dannyfiorentini Hi Danny, thanks for the note! You can preview unread emails by selecting the 'Unread' filter via the top bar. But making them sticky is also a nice idea - we may add that soon :)
André de Albuquerque
Hey, @sohelsanghani Looks like a great app. Two questions, how do you think it differs from a Polymail. Can you send later and stuff?
Sohel Sanghani
@andrealbuq94 For starters, we don't store emails on our server - Canary connects directly to your email provider, which means there's never any downtime on our account. And we already support most IMAP providers.
André de Albuquerque
@sohelsanghani And what about any Send Later options? Do you support Zoho?
Sohel Sanghani
@andrealbuq94 Yes, Zoho should work. We may add Send Later if we find a way to do this reliably without a server component.
André de Albuquerque
@sohelsanghani Thank you very much. Do you have any Slack channel or something for anyone to be more informed to your updates?
Sohel Sanghani
@andrealbuq94 Yes, please DM us your email and we'll send an invite!
Enes Emini
At first I thought: "Not ANOTHER email client for Mac, how many more are there gonna be!?" But I must admit you guys have done a great job. A performant native mac application, that's what I want! I won't name any, but there have been a few email clients built on electron, which is basically a chrome wrapper with some native app features, and these apps are just as powerhungry as chrome itself. A No-Go for a simple Mail Client. I really want to give this a try!
Sohel Sanghani
@eminienes Hi Enes, thanks for your note. Happy to have you onboard!
Chantal Cox
Error 522. Connection timed out. Not working?
Sohel Sanghani
@chantal_marin Hi Chantal, our website should work now. If it doesn't, please DM us on Twitter for a direct download link!
Chantal Cox
@sohelsanghani good job. Do you know https://mainframe.co/? What differentiate you from them or all those slack email startups?
Sohel Sanghani
@chantal_marin I think @r3volution11 has summed it up nicely: "(Canary) doesn't try to reinvent email – it's just email done well." 😊
Derek Nuzum
I REALLY want to make this my default mail app, but it's not going to unseat Airmail 2 at this point. Some differences in UI between the two. I like the Canary seems to load the actual message as it would render in Outlook and how that looks to others, but the overall layout and display of Airmail 2 is just easier for me to read. Their sections and contrast is better. Canary is just a bit lacking in contrast and difference between the left bar and the two reading panes. Really great work so far. Looking forward to seeing more!
MikeT
Looks great so far, fast. Any plans for SMIME/PGP support in the future?
Sohel Sanghani
@mikhailt Thanks Mike! And possibly, but maybe a little later in the development cycle.
Roy Raanani
@sohelsanghani is the tracking for the entire email or on a per recipient basis? Thanks!
Johannes DeMattia
My goto client for e-mail on the desktop, it's really good and keeps improving.
Sohel Sanghani
@demattia Cheers! 😊
Kim Schulz
Would love to see this for Linux some day. Need a better email client there.
Mohammed Shammout
wow this thing is so good looking, I'll be trying it for few days and it might be my new email client.
Anthony Collini
Interesting. I'm all about apps that offer increased user privacy.
Michael
Every time I try to set up an email account, it just says my server is wrong. I've never been able to use this.
Sohel Sanghani
@texasjuicer Hi Michael, which email provider are you using?
Chantal Cox
@texasjuicer not all emails work. I tried some of my startups email and depending on here it is hosted it will not allowed you to (ex : goDaddy website don't) try using a gmail account and it works :)
Sohel Sanghani
@chantal_marin @texasjuicer We're keen to resolve any IMAP incompatibilities asap - just request a Slack invite if you'd like to help us do this!
Sohel Sanghani
@texasjuicer @chantal_marin Thanks - we'll investigate asap.
Gareth K Thomas
Have been using this for last couple of weeks and it's already the best Mac email client I've tried (and I've tried a lot!). It seems like a simple thing to get right, but yet so many miss the mark. This is a simple as possible, with all the features I feel I need. Updates roll out very quickly, and the Canary Mail team are very open to suggestions and feedback. Fantastic.