Nylas-mail: What will Nylas Pro have that Nylas does not have?

[Zopium]

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[bengotow]

Nothing! N1 is becoming a paid product and a Nylas subscription (Pro, Enterprise, etc.) will be required to continue using N1 against the hosted infrastructure after the thirty-day trial window. Of course, it will still be open source, and you'll be able to run it against the open source sync engine forever without paying.

[Zopium]

Ah, but if I got it before may 1 i would get 1 year free?

[bengotow]

Hi @Zopium — yep, that's correct. We'll give existing users 1 year free. Enjoy!

[Eldenroot]

@Zopium - or just try Mailbird - 6USD/year - same features as Nylas

https://www.getmailbird.com/

[bherila]

Of course, it will still be open source, and you'll be able to run it against the open source sync engine forever without paying.

Unless you're using Exchange/Office 365 @bengotow I am assuming?

Kind of disappointing, since $7/month is more than the whole Office desktop suite :(

[fmnoise]

Of course, it will still be open source, and you'll be able to run it against the open source sync engine forever without paying

@bengotow The only thing I need is to read and write emails. How I can continue using free version? Why it cannot just sync my mailbox locally without all your super-ultimate-cool-mega features which I don't need at all?

[deivid11]

:( I don't need super features, i just want to keep using Nylas free version without paying for the cool stuff.

[luishdez]

@fmnoise you can't They made a low blow move , create a community, developers and designers made plugins and themes, they create confusion about the open source /free idea… As soon they had popularity they remove any change of free or non pro version…

I spent a lot of time creating some plugin based of the idea of there will be a free version or non pro but 9$ month to add some features to mails and a service that doesn't have even a mail server … ? no thanks

[Omeryl]

@luishdez If you want free, can always host it yourself pretty easily. That said, I'd much rather they take some of my money than disappear, personally (like Mailbox ..).

[luishdez]

@Omeryl It's not about free or not free , they made a community on false premises and a lot of developers and designers spent a lot of hours on themes, plugins and even nylas n1… there is like 100 contributors just to the project.

If they said… dude it's going to be a paid product with no free or non pro option, I bet they didn't have that support from the beginning from the developer community.

[Omeryl]

@luishdez I think a lot of that was implied, though. We all knew nothing could be free forever... A company (yes, a company, like Nylas is) has to pay back their dues at some point. I don't think they ever said it'd be free forever, they did say though that it was free during beta if I recall correctly.

The community assumed, assumptions don't make fact I fear.

[bherila]

It's not free if you need Exchange support. That killed it for me, sadly.

There are good people behind Nylas though. I've met at least one of them in person. I understand the need to create a viable business but... still disappointed.

[adglopez]

I'm not even user if I want to use the free year early adopter code either. This license change was totally unexpected so would not be surprised if it gets more expensive anytime soon.
After all I just want to simple mail client.

[PolishedGarbage]

Sure was a great client, now I am finding another since this is no longer free.

[thebigcako]

It was a great client, I used it for almost a year and I liked it. So moving back to the ugly Thunderbird 👎

[ArchTaqi]

Where can i download the free version of N1?

[luishdez]

@TaqiOfficial Here from the source. You have to setup your own server and compile the app … There is not a free version of N1 that you can download and use easily.