[inferiorhuman]

> Nothing else syncs to my phone in a manner that "just works" and doesn't require excessive fiddling, or using k9mail which appears to quite simply not work at all.

Before I switched to iOS devices, I used k9mail as I was looking for an email client that did "push" IMAP as I've self-hosted forever and a day. From that experience I'd say that k9mail is more a symptom of the Android ecosystem than an indication that Gmail is just that good. k9 worked for me, but was finnicky if I remember.

On iOS IMAP is very much a second-class citizen. But... with the stock mail client IMAP has been more reliable than Exchange.

> So with that said, how does a person use git via email with the Gmail ui?

Unsure, but if you can you can definitely use Gmail with other clients (for the time being).

[na85]

I have several non-gmail email addresses and I tried to use k9mail for all of them but eventually just gave up because I'd get that 'sync disabled' error and find out I'd missed out on a week's worth of messages.

k9mail is a dumpster fire in my experience.