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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 anc

by bpye 8y 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.

berkut 8y ago
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...
- rimliu 8y ago
  Outlook. Seriously.
PenguinCoder 8y ago
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.
- bpye 8y ago
  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.
borgel 8y ago
Any luck using GMail with other IMAP accounts? I guess I assumed that was possible...
- xaedes 8y ago
  Yea by importing imap into your gmail account... That would be pointless here, but maybe explains why you assumed it was possible.
KozmoNau7 8y ago
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.
- bpye 8y ago
  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.
  - krageon 8y ago
    There is a fork of K9 that uses material design. It's in f-droid.
Yetanfou 8y ago
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/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.fsck.k9.material/
adetrest 8y ago
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.

by bpye 8y 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.

berkut 8y ago

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...

rimliu 8y ago
Outlook. Seriously.

PenguinCoder 8y ago

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.

bpye 8y ago
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.

borgel 8y ago

Any luck using GMail with other IMAP accounts? I guess I assumed that was possible...

xaedes 8y ago
Yea by importing imap into your gmail account... That would be pointless here, but maybe explains why you assumed it was possible.

KozmoNau7 8y ago

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.

bpye 8y ago
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.
- krageon 8y ago
  There is a fork of K9 that uses material design. It's in f-droid.

Yetanfou 8y ago

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

adetrest 8y ago

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.