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What email client are you currently using?

reynierpm

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For all of us is known that the eMail App in macOS and iOS is not the best and is far from competition. I have been looking for the most complete of them and tried (with my Google Account, both personal and work):
  • Airmail: I liked it at first glance, however ...
    • found issues with synchronization between devices ie: mark an email as read on macOS but iOS still having the same email as non-read leading me to open the application on my phone and mark the email as read there.
    • long-press shortcuts do not work from the lock screen on my phone: I tried to delete emails from the lock screen by tapping on "Trash" and surprise the email still on my Inbox
    • email rules do not play nicely
  • Microsoft Outlook:
    • email rules do not play nicely
    • lacks integration with Zoom Calls on the calendar
    • lacks integration with Fantastical Calendar
    • latest version s****ks
  • Spark:
    • lacks integration with Fantastical Calendar (I was in contact with Fantastical support and I was told Spark does not want to support Fantastical, shame on them)
Those are the three I have tested. What I am currently looking for? An email client that works for iOS and macOS and has support with Fantastical Calendar (and if not it has good support for a calendar with integration with zoom calls very important nowadays).

What email client are you using currently?
 
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reynierpm said:
For all of us is known that the eMail App in macOS and iOS is not the best and is far from competition. I have been looking for the most complete of them and tried (with my Google Account, both personal and work):
  • Airmail: I liked it at first glance, however ...
    • found issues with synchronization between devices ie: mark an email as read on macOS but iOS still having the same email as non-read leading me to open the application on my phone and mark the email as read there.
    • long-press shortcuts do not work from the lock screen on my phone: I tried to delete emails from the lock screen by tapping on "Trash" and surprise the email still on my Inbox
    • email rules do not play nicely
  • Microsoft Outlook:
    • email rules do not play nicely
    • lacks integration with Zoom Calls on the calendar
    • lacks integration with Fantastical Calendar
    • latest version s****ks
  • Spark:
    • lacks integration with Fantastical Calendar (I was in contact with Fantastical support and I was told Spark does not want to support Fantastical, shame on them)
Those are the three I have tested. What I am currently looking for? An email client that works for iOS and macOS and has support with Fantastical Calendar (and if not it has good support for a calendar with integration with zoom calls very important nowadays).

What email client are you using currently?
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Postbox.

www.postbox-inc.com

The Power Email App

Postbox is the power email app for busy professionals, like you.
www.postbox-inc.com www.postbox-inc.com
 
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@Apple_Robert tried Canary but for some reason, the iOS app is not showing notifications 🙁 uninstalled. @dwfaust in the post linked here and deleted later Postbox does not have the best reviews and I installed it and looks exactly as Thunderbird. I will continue using Airmail for now until I found the one I wanted and like.
 
I am biased but I really like how Edison Mail works on the Mac and iOS. Also, the brand new email service OnMail.com is open for anyone who wants a brand new email address.
 
I'm using gmail web client for personal email. I don't like mixing personal and work accounts. It does the best job filtering out spam and I like that I can bucket emails into 4 major categories. Kinda wish I could rename those categories but I just ignore the labels and use them how I like.

Work email is Outlook.
  1. Zoom integration works pretty well. The Zoom plugin inserts the correct weblink and alternate connection methods. It also creates a zoom notification for the meeting time. Not sure what else you might want.
  2. I also have a few dozen rules (most of which come down to "if it looks like this just delete it"). They seem to work without problems.
  3. I like the Smart Folders from search.
  4. I really like the Onenote integration where I can send and email or calendar event to Onenote as a formatted note where I can put meeting notes.
 
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dwfaust said:
Postbox.

www.postbox-inc.com

The Power Email App

Postbox is the power email app for busy professionals, like you.
www.postbox-inc.com www.postbox-inc.com
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I’ve tried using Postbox a few times, and while I like the look and feel of the application, it’s a complete memory hog and every time I’ve used it, I’ve had to quit and relaunch several times a day to prevent the app from eating up more than 2-3GB of RAM. The developer’s only (repeated) suggestion to solve this issue is to degrade performance of the application and ”unsubscribe” to folders, which I’ve tried but didn’t help, and it shouldn’t be a solution anyway -- other email applications (including Apple Mail) are able to handle the full demands I’ve put on it without consuming all of my available RAM.
 
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Sparrow's development being stopped left a hole in my heart, but Mimestream is the first macOS mail client that's made me really happy again. It is Gmail only, which is a bit of a bummer, but it's been extremely solid and fast in beta.

I'm not sure what the monetization path for it will be but I'd be happy to pay for it once it releases.
 
Postbox

On my 2012 MacPro (dual x5677; 96GB RAM), PB is currently using 380MiB, 4-6% of my CPU, 73 threads, 313 ports, and is (basically) just sitting there poling five email accounts . . . rather boring in the analysis, imo ;)

I used TB from 2003 till 2013, when I transitioned to PB.

Excellent product.

Regards, splifingate
 
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splifingate said:
Postbox

On my 2012 MacPro (dual x5677; 96GB RAM), PB is currently using 380MiB, 4-6% of my CPU, 73 threads, 313 ports, and is (basically) just sitting there poling five email accounts . . . rather boring in the analysis, imo ;)

I used TB from 2003 till 2013, when I transitioned to PB.

Excellent product.

Regards, splifingate
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I tried using Postbox but it won't let me get rid of the x button or close button. I really need that. Can easily do it in Thunderbird.
 
I'd like to use outlook as my mail email acc is from microsoft. Currently I am using stock mail app in my mac but yeah it lacks lot of features other clients have. It's specially annoying when I have to attach files and the weird file icon is placed everywhere in the middle of the email i am writing instead of at the bottom in an tidy way.
 
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I have used Thunderbird for ?? (many) years, first on Windows and now on Mac. My use is straightforward so can't comment on much beyond mail handling (it does do a good job of managing the address book)
 
reynierpm said:
For all of us is known that the eMail App in macOS and iOS is not the best and is far from competition.
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What do you find lacking about the Mail application? On macOS currently use Postbox, Airmail, and Mail, each for different accounts. I have used many others in the past. I find Mail to be the best by far for my needs.

On iOS, I use Mail, Edison, and Spark. I don't use email as much on my phone and so am not particular.
 
I used Outlook on Windows PC's, then I got an iMac. I signed up for Microsoft 365, hoping to used Outlook. It was not the same. In the Windows version, each email address I had (business, personal etc) had it's own complete identity with it's own inbox, and all the others. I could keep emails separate depending on their purpose. However, on the Mac version there was only one inbox for all email accounts, useless. So I use Apple's mail client and have separate email accounts, inbox etc.
 
I use FastMail's web app on macOS and Mail.app on iOS. Would use FastMail's app on iOS too, but I need Exchange integration there.
 
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Have tried quite a number of them over the years. Have used Thunderbird on Windows, MacOS and IOS and currently have it on my Lenovo laptop and iPad. Apple mail on my iPhone is fine for me as my needs are not complicated.

The key for me is that they integrate well with the servers using IMAP (Gmail and AOL in my case). Tried Spark early on which did not work well for me, and some of the others were too bare-bones for my needs.
 
Freddy Fruitfly said:
I'm interested if Big Mail is worth the rather expensive subscription. There will be a 7 day trial though.

https://getbigmail.com/
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$78 dollars a year for a mail app seems rather pricey to me. The developer states no credentials leave your device. If authen tokens are not used by a particular mail service (or due to how an individual has mail configured) I am curious how the app works in that regard.
 
Mail.app on desktop and same on iOS. Tried all of them many, many times and always end up back with the most simple, integrated, no extra monthly cost one.
 
I am using Postbox.
I also tried Spark and Canary mail. There were a few things that surprised me a bit:
- in Spark you cannot change size of the font of a mail, and you also cannot change the font size of the message list. I found this surprising as this is even possible in Apple Mail
- in Canary you can change the size of a font in a mail message, but the text wil be partly hidden (in Postbox the subwindow enlarges as well), and you cannot change the font size of the message list; furthermore I couldn't permanently change the font in a template. All in all Canary felt a bit unfinished for me.

Of course it will also come down on personal preferences and Postbox just clicked with me.
 
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