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by moonlighter 3816 days ago
After trying different email clients (Sparrow, Mailbox, Airmail, etc) just to see most of them getting abandoned, I've decided to simply stick to the native email clients provided by OS X and iOS and use fastmail.com with a custom domain name. Fastmail is about as flexible as it can get, their IMAP support for OS X mail.app is fantastic and their push notification service is actually better than Apple's (Fastmail pushes 'new/read/unread/delete' notifications, whereas Apple only pushes 'new'.
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overcast 3816 days ago
Seriously, try https://www.uniboxapp.com/. I've been using it on my Mac since beta, and now they have an iOS version. I haven't looked back since. It organizes email by person, like text messaging.
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moonlighter 3816 days ago
Thanks! Looks like a neat app for personal use; doesn't seem to be geared for my own use case though (multiple domains/companies). And while they might or might not stay in business, I'm reasonably sure that mail.app won't be abandoned by Apple.
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krmmalik 3816 days ago
Does it have email tracking, snooze/read it later functions? Site seems to be sparse on details. I've been quite happy with Polymail thus far, but organising emails by person would be amazing.
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busterarm 3816 days ago
I tried to stick with the native mail.app but found it to be buggy and broken in too many ways to be usable. Airmail seems to be working fine for me and doesn't seem to be abandoned.
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moonlighter 3816 days ago
Perhaps it depends with what services you use it? Personally I've only ever used it with Apple's iCloud's mail service which worked great but didn't support custom domains. I also used it as a POP client for Gmail (mostly because Google's IMAP support initially was horrible and their tags didn't play well with IMAP folders back then). I can say though that FastMail's IMAP service works flawlessly for me, and so does the mail.app client for it.

Yes, Airmail is still supported, but IMHO its UI suffers from severe feature creep. I also found it never reliably notified me that account passwords needed to be changed. I used it against MS Outlook, and whenever the password on the backend needed to be changed after 60 days, Airmail would simply sit there and not receive any new emails.

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