Hello (again) !
Big Mail got rebooted.
Except this sequel is better than the original.
It's more Terminator 2 than Batman & Robin.
I'd love to hear what you think!
The Big Mail app on your device grants Big Mail Online a temporary access token to listen out for new inbox events.
When a new message arrives, Big Mail Online sees only the response "EXISTS".
This is then silently pushed to your device, which wakes up and connects directly to your mail provider to fetch the message.
Not even Apple see the contents, as it's just an empty push notification.
Despite going to great lengths on this, I know it still won't be for everyone. So you can still use Big Mail without any of the Big Mail Online stuff.
One of the reasons I gave BMO a distinct brand of its own, is so when you're in the app, any feature that uses it will be obvious.
(Plus it was a fun excuse to get nostalgic with MacOS 😅)
@phill Congrats man, looks insane!
@phill Looks great, looking forward to trying it after dub dub
@phill this branding is absolutely gorgeous!
@johnlago thanks John! 💌
@phill super smart!!! Can’t wait to try the beta
@phill You have NAILED this, I’m beyond excited to use Big Mail v2.
@voboshi thank you! 💪
@phill Can’t wait to see it!
@phill I can’t wait to give it a go! And the Online branding is just perfect
@alex what's old is new again!!
@phill 🤩 congrats! This looks incredibly polished. Beautiful site too. Those demo videos 🔥🥵
@jordanhipwell thanks for the kind words Jordan! Appreciated 🫶
@phill Can’t wait to try this! I’m excited about the prospect of a modern mail app that supports any IMAP server and is available for both iOS and Mac.
@simonbs can’t wait to see what you think!
@phill dude it looks fantastic, can’t wait to test it 😍
@sandropennisi thanks, can’t wait to get it to you!
@phill 👀 I'm intrigued, still looking for a good email client to use for overkill.wtf.
@phill This look so promising. Excited to see if I could make it into the Testflight slots. :)
@schalksernst the aim is as many people as possible, so your chances are good! 💌🫡
@phill The day is coming to an end soon here in Europe. When will the first invites drop? 😁
@phill So, what you’re saying is more Aliens than Highlander II?
@meaden controversial (but correct!)
@phill I like to skirt the edges :) I’m travelling for a couple weeks, but Big Mail 2 “The Quickening” is in my Notion follow-up list for when I get back. It’s looks awesome.
@meaden enjoy your travels! Big Mail will be waiting 💌
@phill Fantastic UI. Only thing I can see me not liking are the pins floating above other content in the sidebar. I do love that they collapse though. Not sure if there is an option to change that or not. It would bug me.
The website got me to give you my email addy. Looks like a real competitor. Currently a Spark mail user that likes it very much. Good luck!
@quarterswede thanks for the feedback! 📌
@phill OMG this looks amazing! Not sure how I feel about paying for email, but I will definitely be testing it out
@anthonyvardiz thanks Anthony. Hope to win you around 💌
@phill yay! I’m very excited!!! ❤️
@phill sent you an email :)
@phill looking forward to seeing how the macOS app compares to Mimestream which is now maybe the best macOS app I have ever used.
@igorkulman no pressure 🫡
@phill Holy shit, that notes feature looks GREAT! Can't wait to have a go at it :)
@tomk thank you!!
@phill Looking forward to it!
@phill This looks awesome, nice work Phill! The website tells a great story. Looking forward to taking it for a spin.
Any chance of a bundle-by-sender feature rolling in down the road, or is that not something you’re interested in?
@willing Thanks Jonathan! 🫶
And yes! It's actually already there, I just had to start cutting things that weren't quite ready (and find a much better name for it 😅)
@phill Hype! Can’t wait.
@phill Really hope there’ll be enough TF room. (I had to sleep) 😅
Congrats Phillip! I know you’ve been working on this for a *very* long time. Looks amazing!
Website is great, as well! 🎉
@SENTINELITE thank you! And no worries, will be plenty. There's no queue, will be releasing new batches periodically.
@phill it looks incredible! Awesome work! Can’t wait to TestFlight it!
@via thank you! Looking forward to getting it out there 🙌
@phill will there eventually be a macOS counterpart via Catalyst or otherwise, or is it possible to run the iPad app on macOS?
@phill omg how did I miss this 🤦🏻♀️
@via ahaha easily done, it's just the one promo shot for now. The Mac client is a little further behind iOS, but it's catching up 🖥️
@phill Out if interest, what did you use to record/edit all your lovely iPhone videos on the website?
@freddiewrites a mix of https://www.screen.studio and Final Cut! Annoyingly it has a couple of weird export quirks atm, but I think they’re working on a fix.
@phill Ah, nice. Been meaning to look at Screen Studio for a while now. Thanks!
@phill Any chance you can fix the sign up email form so it accepts a ‘+’ in an email address?
@davebarfoot annoyingly it’s a fully managed form by Send Grid and there doesn’t appear to be an option to change it. Sorry about that!
@phill Never mind. I’ll invent a real alias somewhere :-)
@phill this… looks… AMAZING 😍😍😍
One of the more ambitious aspects of this project was how to bring Big Mail into the cloud: V1 was DOA without push and rapid sync.
But how to do it and still claim to be on-device/privacy centric?
My answer to this is Big Mail Online. A totally optional, private push and sync service.
I had one simple rule developing it: no message data get processed, parsed, or stored, on any server, ever.