Mailspring

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Mailspring, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Deleting a draft can silently delete the whole thread without warning2025-02-03
Accounts routinely fail to sync, forcing reconnection, and window cannot regain focus after closing2022-06-12
One email account refused to connect, so only some mail was available2020-07-17
Client grinds to a halt when opening threads with over 50 replies2020-07-17
Default "Sent from Mailspring" signature is not straightforward to remove2017-10-06