Ask HN: A hassle-free chat-style email app

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This has probably been asked before but is there a truly hassle-free chat-style email app out there? I know Spike but it’s just overloaded with AI suggestions and generally not as smooth as Gmail

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I'd be content with even a browser extension in LibreWolf to style specific email threads, and past and future emails from specific senders as chat bubbles. Would need to strip the signatures of course. I find email threads really laborious to parse with lots of short messages from family members in group threads versus skimming through chat bubbles. Each sender would need a user-configurable chat bubble colour too.

I'm sure someone could probably vibe code a FOSS repo for this in an afternoon if it's as capable as the average comment here seems to claim (hasn't been my experience, but would love to solve a problem and be proven wrong).

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