Nylas-mail: Snooze, send later and read receipts don't work with locally hosted sync engine

[mandarvaze]

I'm using "local" server, and when snoozed, I see the following error

Sorry, we were unable to save your snooze settings. 404: Not Found

• [ ] What operating system are you using?
  OSX El Capitan
• [ ] What version of N1 are you using?
  Version 0.4.10-4e3595b

[bengotow]

Hi @mandarvaze — thanks for reporting this. Snooze, send later and read receipts are powered by our cloud infrastructure and don't work if you're running the backend locally. We'll improve the messaging around this in the next update.

[marshall-mcmullen]

That's really too bad. I recently switched to the local server option too and would love to continue using snooze. It would be nice if that would work with the local server rather than just the hosted server setup...

[mandarvaze]

FYI, I noticed that an empty folder "N1-Snoozed" got created on my IMAP server
But it doesn't "sync" back with N1
I could not find an option to define which folders from IMAP to sync (and which ones to skip)

[bengotow]

Hey folks! We've added a notice into the latest release so the app will notify you when you try to use these features that they require the hosted infrastructure.

Unfortunately snoozed mail is actually un-snoozed server-side, and "send later" mail is sent server-side, so your client doesn't need to be running for the actions to take place. We may open source these services in the future, but right now they're running on a separate part of our infrastructure and still under active development.

[jrk]

I would really love to see these open sourced in the future. The opaque incompatibility between every different client's snooze backend is a major frustration today. (I personally have messages snoozed with a Gmail script + labels—for the Gmail web UI/alternate clients—Outlook/iOS, and Nylas. I've also used Mailbox, Google's Inbox, Spark, and others.) Being able to push at least some more things, including custom tools and automation scripts, to a common snooze backend that was open source, extensible, and self-hostable would be extremely valuable.

Something to consider: it would be nice to see this as a general scheduled task feature in or atop the core Nylas API—both centralized and self-hosted.

[HammyHavoc]

I'd like to see these open-sourced too, bit off-putting to have commercial options in an open-source client by default. The self-hosted version has a lot of potential, but I do understand that you guys need to monetize somehow, just there's a little overlap with open-sourcing it by keeping specific functionality as closed source. My company has a strict policy on not having data on third party servers, and we try not to rely on third party infrastructure where possible as we're not short of servers.

[kevinmartin]

Being that the client is open-source, anyone else (including yourself) can create a plugin that does this.