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by amluto 700 days ago
An email provider with a high quality, efficient native app that has first-class offline support, threading, some well-thought-through AI-based categorization of emails, respects my privacy, and does not issue network requests based on email content would be quite welcome, IMO.

Look at Fastmail for a surprisingly popular service that gets most of this massively wrong.
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jhogervorst 700 days ago
What do you dislike about Fastmail? I'm curious, since I've been using it for a while and I'm quite happy with it.
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amluto 700 days ago
Their apps are entirely lacking threading support, and IMO more egregiously, offline support.

Fastmail likes to brag about their JMAP protocol, and maybe JMAP is great and maybe it's not, but it's certainly the case that their iOS app is 100% nonfunctional when offline. I've been using various forms of email for quite a while. Microsoft's MAPI crud in all its incarnations works offline. POP3 works (albeit poorly) offline. IMAP works offline. Fastmail does not.

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xigoi 700 days ago
> AI-based categorization of emails

> does not issue network requests based on email content

How do you expect to combine these two goals?

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amluto 700 days ago
I meant not issuing network requests for resources referenced in the email. Kind of like how hey.com goes out of its way not to load remote resources that can track email reads.
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