As an email app, Microsoft outlook is less than ideal, are there other options including free ones?
Most people using Outlook are doing it as part of a corporate environment, or otherwise need Outlook specific features. Can you identify if you're doing any of that stuff? i.e., do you need Outlook compatibility?As an email app, Microsoft outlook is less than ideal, are there other options including free ones?
That's very true!That depends on whether or not the OP needs Thunderbird extensions. I have periodically used Thunderbird (and its predecessors) since the Netscape days and I haven't used an extension in well over a decade.
Admittedly I am using it as an alternate mail client not my primary (which is the built-in macOS app) so my personal needs are very basic.
In any case it's still worth trying Thunderbird especially because it's FREE.
You know, I used to think it was just me that was 'searching' wrong! So, good to know...@OP: What's wrong with outlook or the default mail client?
Only thing so far which I dislike about outlook is that sometimes search doesn't find all mails.
We use office 365 at work. And sometimes when I feel suspicious a mail is missing, I go to the web portal and search there: https://outlook.office365.com/mail/. Then often it does return the mail I was looking for.You know, I used to think it was just me that was 'searching' wrong! So, good to know...
What's wrong with Outlook is that Microsoft has yet to join the 21th century and it doesn't support CalDAV or CardDAV.@OP: What's wrong with outlook or the default mail client?
Only thing so far which I dislike about outlook is that sometimes search doesn't find all mails.
Curious... I've been using Airmail also... but recently SEARCH has been completely failing me. (I'm browsing this forum/thread to see what people think of other solutions.)I can recommend Airmail. I've been using it for two years now and considering I tend to make life hard for email clients (over 100,000 emails across 7 different accounts, probably about 5 gigabytes worth of mails) it's been holding up fairly well.
I've always used the macOS Mail application for my own personal e-mail needs and have never found it necessary to consider others.The most obvious alternative would be the built-in macOS Mail client.
The second most obvious alternative would be Mozilla Thunderbird, a direct descendant of the mid-Nineties Netscape Communicator.
What about the iOS side of your equation? Postbox doesn't offer iOS the last time I checked, which was several years ago.I recently switched to Postbox mail. I also looked at Spark and Canary mail, but Postbox just clicked the best with me. Postbox is not the cheapest (currently $39 for a lifetime license), but is has a lot of functionality and feels the most polished.
For example, in Spark it is not possible to easily increase the font of an incoming mail (which surprised me, this is even possible in Apple mail). In Canary, you can increase the font, but the window which contains the mail stays the same size, so that text becomes hidden. In Postbox, when font is increased, the size of the window also becomes bigger.
Correct, Postbox doesn’t have an iOS version. I am using Apple mail on iOS. For me, this is fine because I am using my iMac for mail at least 80% of the time.What about the iOS side of your equation? Postbox doesn't offer iOS the last time I checked, which was several years ago.