Hiri was (now defunct) a business focused desktop

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for sending and receiving e-mails, managing calendars, contacts, and tasks. It was developed as an alternative to existing e-mail clients and calendar applications such as Microsoft Outlook and

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. Although Hiri was developed actively with many releases in primarily 2017 and the first half of 2018, there have been no new releases and no active development anymore since August 2018.https://feedback.hiri.com/downloads/changelog.html Also, Hiri Suggestions, a dedicated subdomain for acquiring new ideas for development, has not received replies from the development since last year. Hiri uses the cross-platform Qt framework to run on

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and

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. Hiri does not support

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and only uses

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infrastructure. Hiri has been funded by Telefonica, Delta Partners, ACT Venture Capital,

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and Angel investors

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and

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. In March 2017, Hiri began charging a subscription service ($39 yearly; $119 lifetime).

Features

* E-mail synchronization using

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Exchange Web Services (EWS) API * Compatible with Exchange 2010 SP2+ and

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* Full-featured calendar * Local

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database for fast searching of emails * Exchange Global Address List (GAL) * Integrated task manager * Folder management * Conversation view * Automatic categorization of emails into Actionable and FYI inboxes * OAuth 2.0 authentication * Corporate SSO providers (such as Okta) * Anonymously rate the quality of emails that you receive

Supported email providers

Hiri supports in-house corporate Microsoft Exchange servers as well as

, Outlook.com, Live.com, and Hotmail.com.

External links

References

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by Rick Broida at CNET; published Mar 13, 2017; retrieved June 26, 2017 Hiri – A Desktop Email Client for Microsoft Office365 and Hotmail
by Martins D. Okoi at fossmint.com; published May 26, 2017; retrieved June 26, 2017 The Qt-Powered Future of Enterprise E-Mail
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retrieved Jun 27, 2017 Dublin-based Hiri raises $1m in funding as it opens US office
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