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by bpye 2755 days ago
I have no complaints with Fastmail, great experience.

Android mail clients however - I really wish K-9 Mail felt more modern, it's perfectly usable but the ancient UI makes it less nice to use.

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I've just switched from gmail to fastmail, and I'm not very impressed with Fastmail's iOS app (it's pretty slow to start / open / retrieve emails) or the lack of offline support it has.

TBH, other than the annoying ability to too easily swipe emails left and expose the Archive green button, I really liked the Gmail app - it was extremely fast and easy to use.

Anyone have any suggestions on a mail client for iOS? I can use the Apple one (and am doing currently), but I don't really get on with it for some reason...

Outlook. Seriously.
K-9 Mail's old-school UI is one of the reasons I keep using it. Straight-forward and to the point, no silly gimmicks.
I don't mind it for usability however I would love if it actually felt in place (ie. material design), rather than feeling so alien.
There is a fork of K9 that uses material design. It's in f-droid.
Try K9 Material [1], an unofficial fork using Material design. It works just like the regular version but looks a bit more in-line with the rest of modern Android.

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.fsck.k9.material/

I use fastmail and on android my client of choice is Maildroid. In combination it is a amazing experience and much better for me than native gmail/mail client.
I might try Maildroid, I do quite like using an open source client though. If I was to use one that's already closed Outlook doesn't seem all that bad.
Do you have background sync problems with k9? I can't get mine to fetch emails while I'm not using k9, I have to open the app, go to unified inbox, and manually refresh. Background sync etc is on but disables itself.
Any luck using GMail with other IMAP accounts? I guess I assumed that was possible...
Yea by importing imap into your gmail account... That would be pointless here, but maybe explains why you assumed it was possible.