Hiri was (now defunct) a business focused desktop e-mail client 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 Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager software system from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 software suites. Though primarily an email client, Outlook also includes such functions as Calen ...

and Mozilla Thunderbird. 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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macOS macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac computers. Within the market of desktop and lapt ...

and

Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which ...

. Hiri does not support IMAP and only uses Microsoft Exchange Server infrastructure. Hiri has been funded by Telefonica, Delta Partners, ACT Venture Capital, Enterprise Ireland and Angel investors

Facebook Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin M ...

and

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

Features

* E-mail synchronization using

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...

Exchange Web Services (EWS) API * Compatible with

Exchange 2010 Microsoft Exchange Server is a mail server and calendaring server developed by Microsoft. It runs exclusively on Windows Server operating systems. The first version was called Exchange Server 4.0, to position it as the successor to the related ...

SP2+ and Office 365 * Full-featured calendar * Local

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database for fast searching of emails * Exchange

Global Address List A Global Address List (GAL) is an electronic shared address book which contains usually all people of given organization (company, school etc.). This address book is accessed over the computer network using LDAP protocol, CardDAV or some other elect ...

(GAL) * Integrated task manager * Folder management * Conversation view * Automatic categorization of emails into Actionable and FYI inboxes *

OAuth OAuth (short for "Open Authorization") is an open standard for access delegation, commonly used as a way for internet users to grant websites or applications access to their information on other websites but without giving them the passwords. T ...

2.0 authentication * Corporate SSO providers (such as

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) * Anonymously rate the quality of emails that you receive

Supported email providers

Hiri supports in-house corporate Microsoft Exchange servers as well as Office 365,

Outlook.com Outlook.com is a webmail service that is part of the Microsoft 365 product family. It offers mail, Calendaring software, calendaring, Address book, contacts, and Task management, tasks services. Founded in 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smit ...

, Live.com, and

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External links

References

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9 to 5 Mac review of Hiri; published Jun 23, 2015; retrieved June 26, 2017 Get Outlook replacement Hiri for free
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
Case study on Hiri by the Qt Company; published Sep 1, 2016; retrieved June 26, 2017 Top 9 Best Email Clients for Linux
by Munif Tanjim at itsfoss.com; published Jan 17, 2017; retrieved June 26, 2017 5 of the Best Desktop Email Clients That Don’t Cost a Dime
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by Linuxandubuntu.com; published May 4, 2017; retrieved June 26, 2017 Hiri Wayra investment
retrieved Jun 27, 2017 Dublin-based Hiri raises $1m in funding as it opens US office
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