[MlMt] Crowd Funding 2014

2013-10-21 Thread Benny Kjær Nielsen
Dear MailMate users, as many of you have probably seen then I posted a few times on my blog at the end of last week. First of all, [MailMate 1.7](http://blog.freron.com/2013/mailmate-1-7-released/) was relased, but more importantly I posted a personal message entitled “[Changing Priorities](h

Re: [MlMt] Crowd Funding 2014

2013-10-21 Thread Ryan Erwin
Benny, Did you send a notice about the crowd funding opportunity to all of your licensed users? I didn't notice one - I only saw notice through the mailing list. If you don't want to send an email blast, perhaps you should send a link inside of the MailMate updates. If you get a 5-10% respon

Re: [MlMt] Crowd Funding 2014

2013-10-21 Thread Zvi Biener
I like the nascent marketing idea: MailMate is the hacker's email client. Not that you need too many interjections, Benny, but I, for one, would much rather you spent time thinking of how to fund and advertise MailMate and put development off for a little bit, if only to ensure future develop

Re: [MlMt] Crowd Funding 2014

2013-10-21 Thread Ryan Erwin
I'm definitely with Zvi here. As Ghandi said, "Speed doesn't matter if you're not traveling in the right direction". You've got to get the marketing side of MailMate figured out. If you run with the "Hacker's Email Client", perhaps you can capitalize on the current NSA inspired anxiety and foc

Re: [MlMt] Crowd Funding 2014

2013-10-21 Thread Jason Davies
On 21 Oct 2013, at 15:44, Zvi Biener wrote: I like the nascent marketing idea: MailMate is the hacker's email client. I keep wondering how to get Mailmate-awareness to the old Mailsmith crowd, formerly sold by Bare Bones. THat also hit the point it could not support itself full-time but also

Re: [MlMt] Crowd Funding 2014

2013-10-21 Thread Benny Kjær Nielsen
On 21 Oct 2013, at 16:34, Ryan Erwin wrote: Did you send a notice about the crowd funding opportunity to all of your licensed users? I didn't notice one - I only saw notice through the mailing list. No, not yet. I'm thinking I might postpone this until after I decide whether or not to make a

Re: [MlMt] Crowd Funding 2014

2013-10-29 Thread Ryan Erwin
## The Hacker's Mail Client I use MailMate more than any other program on my Macbook Air, which I keep with me almost all the time in my life of nearly constant travel. I love that I can hit "/" and my default search boxes come up, and I can quickly find the message that I need to reference.

Re: [MlMt] Crowd Funding 2014

2013-10-30 Thread Benny Kjær Nielsen
On 29 Oct 2013, at 12:59, Ryan Erwin wrote: I love that I can hit "/" and my default search boxes come up, and I can quickly find the message that I need to reference. Ironically, I think it's too slow to setup a quick search :-) (I have some ideas for that.) If only MailMate could be made

Re: [MlMt] Crowd Funding 2014

2013-11-11 Thread Bill Cole
On 29 Oct 2013, at 7:59, Ryan Erwin wrote: The other direction that I see as a solid field to grow is simple message security. Something that is easier to use than PGP, more secure than PGP (no exposed subject lines!) but I think that requires rethinking the client and the server, and ultimate