[zchrykng]

Got an example of a well-implemented natice app for email? I'm bugged by some bugs with the Fastmail app, but have generally had a better experience with it than any other client I've tried. Search in particular is far better on the Fastmail app.

[Jakob]

I really like Mimestream, which is a native client for Gmail.

Very fast and supports all the usual native macOS keyboard navigation, e.g. shift or command to amend selection in a list.

[zchrykng]

I've heard good things about it, for sure, but I'd argue that it isn't really an Email client. It is a Gmail client as it doesn't work with anything else. Fastmail is in the same bucket, but it is part of my contention about there not being good Email apps generally.

[Barbing]

It’s really tempting - uses their API for that speed.

I’m worried Google won’t like it someday. It’s such a hassle if they shut you off that I want to seem like the most normal user to them. Pay Mimestream, skip ads, avoid Gmail app telemetry… any incentive for Google to permit it longterm? (Like maybe you’d switch to Fastmail if they killed Mimestream… or maybe not!)

[JumpCrisscross]

> Got an example of a well-implemented natice app for email?

Mail.app isn't total shit. It's not great. But it doesn't fumble the basics, like Outlook for Mac, which thinks it's fine to take like 10s to show me my inbox.

[Barbing]

Why does it seem to take so long to get & read one new email?

I can use get new mail or synchronize in Mail.app, but always spoiled by the instantaneous Gmail app notification. Often don’t have patience to wait for Mail.app for 2FA codes (just OCR or manually type from the Gmail notification mirrored on Mac).

Also should back up a bulk of ancient emails clogging the app, might be partially my fault.

[zchrykng]

Mail.app's search is completely and utterly broken in my experience on Macs and on iPhones.

[JumpCrisscross]

Oh yeah. For search I open the browser, usually. But 99% of the time it works without taking a European Commission session to load.

[rstupek]

It looks like Apple is addressing this with the next release of macOS/iOS

[nunez]

iOS Mail app still undefeated 19 years later

[benhurmarcel]

It has its quirks. For example it can’t attach an image without inlining it. Or if the sender has several email addresses saved it can’t show which one sent you a particular email. And it can’t show you which of your email addresses received a given email.