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The core loop is buildable, but a dependable replacement becomes a real weekend or multi-day project. For Newton Mail, build a cross-platform email client with read receipts, snooze, and send later. The hard boundary is push infrastructure, provider compatibility, mobile apps, sync, and support, plus mail infrastructure, integrations, and client polish.

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The Build Prompt

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Build a minimalistic, fast cross-platform email client inspired by Newton Mail.
Use Tauri 2, React, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, SQLite for fast local indexing, and standard IMAP/SMTP protocols.

### Data Model
- `Account`: id, email, provider (gmail, custom), imap_host, imap_port, smtp_host, smtp_port, auth_token.
- `Message`: id, account_id, thread_id, subject, snippet, from_email, to_email, date, is_read, html_body.
- `Thread`: id, account_id, subject, last_message_date, message_count, is_snoozed, snooze_until.
- `ScheduledMessage`: id, account_id, raw_eml, scheduled_date, status.
- `ReadReceipt`: id, message_id, tracking_pixel_id, is_read, read_at.

### Screens & UX Patterns
1. **Minimalist Inbox View**: A distraction-free, single-column list of email threads. Very clean typography, lots of whitespace. Swiping (or hover actions) reveals quick actions: Archive, Trash, Snooze, Mark as Read.
2. **Email Thread View**: An uncluttered reading experience that strips out complex HTML layouts to focus on text. Sender avatar, clear timestamps. "Undo Send" toast notification immediately after sending.
3. **Compose View**: A Zen-like popup for drafting. Essential formatting tools only. Features a prominent "Send Later" dropdown and a "Request Read Receipt" toggle.
4. **Snooze Menu**: A beautifully designed popover with one-click options (Later Today, Tomorrow, This Weekend, Next Week, Desktop only).

### Step-by-Step User Journey
1. **Onboarding**: User logs in with a generic IMAP/SMTP account. The app immediately starts syncing the last 30 days of email in the background into SQLite.
2. **Snooze**: User sees an email about a flight, clicks the clock icon (Snooze), and selects "Next Week". The email vanishes from the Inbox and goes to a 'Snoozed' folder. A background task in Tauri checks SQLite periodically to return it to the Inbox when time expires.
3. **Send Later**: User drafts a message, sets it to send at 8:00 AM tomorrow. It gets saved to the `ScheduledMessage` table.
4. **Read Receipts**: User sends an email with read receipts enabled. The app injects a 1x1 tracking image before sending via SMTP. When opened, the app's small backend worker receives the ping, updates the local SQLite DB, and the email in the sent folder gets a double-check (✓✓) mark.

### Technical Specifics
- Build the core mail sync engine in Rust within Tauri, heavily utilizing SQLite for blazingly fast full-text search.
- Implement a 5-second outbox delay to allow the "Undo Send" feature to cancel an SMTP dispatch.
- Write a lightweight cloud worker (e.g., Cloudflare Worker) to handle read receipt tracking pixel requests and funnel them back to the client.
- Ensure strict HTML sanitization before rendering in the Thread View to maintain the app's clean aesthetic and prevent XSS.
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What you lose

  • Hosted infrastructure and managed operations from Newton Mail
  • The original service's mature integrations and ecosystem
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