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Just wondering: why don't you use your phone's native email app and IMAP?

by jhrmnn 7y ago

blacksmith_tb 7y ago
Android 10 (at least on my Pixel 2) doesn't have a native email app (other than Gmail), though of course there are lots of options.
- y4mi 7y ago
  last time i checked, gmail supports generic IMAP accounts as well.
  - SamBam 7y ago
    But then you're using gmail.
    - y4mi 7y ago
      we were talking about the android app, not the web service. said android app supports generic IMAP accounts and doesnt need to be paired to a google account to work with them.
  - cotelletta 7y ago
    But the smallest sync interval is 15 minutes and it won't sync sub folders until you open them. It's not usable for real work, and I'm pretty sure that's how Google likes it.
- stilisstuk 7y ago
  Fairemail let's you specify different reply from addresses (if allowed on the server). I use this with mailfence.
eatwater123 7y ago
Yeah, I've just got Gmail as a 'native' app. Which sort of defeats the purpose of switching to Fastmail for me hah.
anuragsoni 7y ago
My use case might not be too common, but I use fastmail with multiple aliases and the official app is the only way for me to send emails with these different aliases. Another reason is the lack of push notification (not sure if i'm using the right term) when using the built in gmail app for fastmail. It only gives me the option to poll every 15 minutes. The gmail app also doesn't support actions like snooze, swipe to archive etc on non-gmail accounts and I like having that in the fast mail app.
- rixed 7y ago
  > My use case might not be too common, but I use fastmail > with multiple aliases and the official app is the only > way for me to send emails with these different aliases. I'm doing exactly this from Android with Aquamail.
  - anuragsoni 7y ago
    Do you have to configure the individual alias in the app? If so I can see it getting really tedious to keep it in sync with the aliases inside fastmail.
    - rixed 7y ago
      Yes indeed you do have to create the aliases you want to send from.
qzervaas 7y ago
My reason: they recently rolled out message snoozing on the server side (this is normally achieved by client apps), however the native Mail app doesn't support this. Fastmail's iOS app does support this functionality.

Just wondering: why don't you use your phone's native email app and IMAP?

by jhrmnn 7y ago

Just wondering: why don't you use your phone's native email app and IMAP?

Android 10 (at least on my Pixel 2) doesn't have a native email app (other than Gmail), though of course there are lots of options.

y4mi 7y ago
last time i checked, gmail supports generic IMAP accounts as well.
- SamBam 7y ago
  But then you're using gmail.
  - y4mi 7y ago
    we were talking about the android app, not the web service. said android app supports generic IMAP accounts and doesnt need to be paired to a google account to work with them.
- cotelletta 7y ago
  But the smallest sync interval is 15 minutes and it won't sync sub folders until you open them. It's not usable for real work, and I'm pretty sure that's how Google likes it.
stilisstuk 7y ago
Fairemail let's you specify different reply from addresses (if allowed on the server). I use this with mailfence.

eatwater123 7y ago

Yeah, I've just got Gmail as a 'native' app. Which sort of defeats the purpose of switching to Fastmail for me hah.

anuragsoni 7y ago

My use case might not be too common, but I use fastmail with multiple aliases and the official app is the only way for me to send emails with these different aliases. Another reason is the lack of push notification (not sure if i'm using the right term) when using the built in gmail app for fastmail. It only gives me the option to poll every 15 minutes. The gmail app also doesn't support actions like snooze, swipe to archive etc on non-gmail accounts and I like having that in the fast mail app.

rixed 7y ago
> My use case might not be too common, but I use fastmail > with multiple aliases and the official app is the only > way for me to send emails with these different aliases. I'm doing exactly this from Android with Aquamail.
- anuragsoni 7y ago
  Do you have to configure the individual alias in the app? If so I can see it getting really tedious to keep it in sync with the aliases inside fastmail.
  - rixed 7y ago
    Yes indeed you do have to create the aliases you want to send from.

qzervaas 7y ago

My reason: they recently rolled out message snoozing on the server side (this is normally achieved by client apps), however the native Mail app doesn't support this. Fastmail's iOS app does support this functionality.