Dear friends! Everyday I work with hundred of mails from my colleagues, different types of docs. Want to find the best Mail App. Need Your professional suggestions. I like the native Mail App in iOS and MacOS, but maybe there is some app on the IT market, which is more productive. Many thanks!
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Best Mail App. Help, pls
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Postbox, perhaps. Based on Thunderbird. Written by two early original Thunderbird developers. Many features for power users. https://www.postbox-inc.com
My favorite so far is Spark (App Store link). Some people don't like that they route your mail through their servers and I haven't read their privacy policy (although it looks easy to read) because all I have in it is my personal accounts but I love the UI on the Mac and iOS. It's much better than all the other's out there. Plus it supports gestures (swiping on the trackpad to delete, archive, snooze, etc). That alone makes more productive. Office 365 is close but still has oddly made UI decisions here and there and it's all web based which some hate. Plus, it's subscription based.
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Actually, Thunderbird does a very good job:
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/
Been using it for close to 5 months (after a major issue with Outlook 2016), and it easily satisfies my needs. Not "graphically sexy", but it gets the job done.
Some people like the Outlook-style vertical message list for a selected folder, others don't. Hence the choice between Postbox (vertical list) and Thunderbird (horizontal list). OTOH, Postbox doesn't have extensions anymore, hence no calendar support. Postbox is purely email, while Thunderbird does have calendar support.
What Postbox does have is better ways to filter email in an account (Focus pane), Template support for mass emails, RAW HTML editor support for emails and signatures...
What Postbox does have is better ways to filter email in an account (Focus pane), Template support for mass emails, RAW HTML editor support for emails and signatures...
Yeah, that's true. But as I stated, Thunderbird does not have a very "colorful, sexy" interface. It just gets the job done.
As far as I can tell, Thunderbird is doing a good job of filtering out most of the junk mail that is being sent my way. I certainly get less than when I was using Outlook 2016.
Oh, I wasn't talking about junk mail when I mentioned the Focus Pane. When you get hundreds of emails in a day, the Focus Pane's job is to find ways to limit visibility of what you see in the inbox to the emails from a certain person.
Outlook on the Mac is pretty good these days – especially if you are connected to an Exchange Server. The development team are responsive (usually in 24 hs) in away that Apple are NEVER seen to be and the slow beta programme is pretty stable showing you what's coming if you have a penchant for a bit of experimentation.
I am less enamoured with Outlook on the iPhone. I also have Airmail 3 on the Mac, which I have never clicked with.
I am less enamoured with Outlook on the iPhone. I also have Airmail 3 on the Mac, which I have never clicked with.
Stay away from Airmail. There support is horrendous.
I just finished a detailed description of my issue (basically I lost the ability to search my past emails) on another thread in this forum.
I just finished a detailed description of my issue (basically I lost the ability to search my past emails) on another thread in this forum.
MailMate is the most versatile one in my opinion. Two things which are important to know: emails are written in MarkDown (with live HTML preview below), and there is no way to temporarily hide accounts in the sidebar, which I find difficult as I have to manage more than twenty accounts, but most of them only once a month, so I would like to deactivate them (currently I delete these accounts in MailMate and set them up again when I have to use them). I liked to work with Apple Mail, but Catalina rendered it useless by dropping the ability to manage columns.
Every time I tried to use Apple mail, I always go back to canary mail app. I just need to know the person got my email