Beta so far
After the shutdown of Sparrow, I felt that people wanted to see another high quality, slick and beautiful email client back. This is why I decided to build another email client from scratch: DejaLu.
This is what DejaLu is all about, beautiful UI, friendly interface and an amazing high quality software with amazing new features.
Built from the ground up using Open Source technology MailCore and libetpan that I maintain and that other apps such as Airmail and Spark are using as well, I created DejaLu.
A few weeks back, I invited a couple of people to beta test DejaLu and got great feedback.
Slick and simple user interface
The user interface has been designed to reduce the amount of “computer administrative debris” and maximize the content.
Brand new redesigned format and font size for each one of your email thread. DejaLu is simply easy to use and beautiful.
Zen Notifications
Inbox Zero email is really hard to achieve for a human being. For most of us, emails accumulate and the amount of email counter is usually out of control.
Zen Notifications is an amazing feature for email notifications and probably the best way to fight the stress of unread emails. A Dock badge without counter appears when there’s a new message and goes away when you bring DejaLu to front.
Energy efficient
DejaLu downloads only the emails you need, which makes it much more efficient, saving you disk space and battery.
Gmail friendly, Desktop friendly
The following features have been implemented on client side: Labels, Archive, Signature and Aliases.
It supports drag&drop and it can collapse like a widget so it doesn’t take lots of space on your screen.
Cc / Bcc
I believe that Cc/Bcc is an outdated feature. Some software such as Front are literally letting people share their entire inbox to avoid having to Cc or Bcc. The original version of DejaLu didn’t have that feature but I’ve realized that many of us were probably too used to it from the other mail clients.
I believe that adding this feature back to DejaLu will add a great value to the users.
Beta feedback
A big thumbs up to the beta testers who were willing to try out this new app and send me their feedback. The application has been improved to fit the beta testers needs. I added more avatars, implemented Label & Archive, Mark as Spam, added Cmd-Enter to send emails, fixed international folders names, implemented emails in notification center, SOCKS proxy supports and fixed bugs.
Even though DejaLu is only available for Gmail or Google Apps, I certainly hope to make this awesome new app available to many other email providers. Feel free to download the beta of DejaLu and let me know what you think.
Hoa Dinh
