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I never considered a Gmail alternative since Gmail has primary/social/promotion/updates tabs and proper threading of replies and almost perfect spam protection.

I never considered a Gmail alternative since Gmail has primary/social/promotion/updates tabs and proper threading of replies and almost perfect spam protection. What services do the above things as good?

curiousmindz 6y ago
Yahoo! Mail has one really cool feature: It supports actual browser-like tabs. So, it is possible to open multiple email conversations in parallel, as well as run some searches, and look at various folders.
paranorman 6y ago
They haven’t gotten much love on this site but I recently switched to hey.com after being a gmail user since beta in 2004 and couldn’t be happier. I like the “feed” for newsletter-y things (with a neat scroll to preview messages view) and the paper trail for transactions. There’s also something empowering about the simple “thumbs up” “thumbs down” screening queue for new senders. I will say, however, that I never realized just how infrequently I receive mail that actually warrants my attention (let alone a reply) and that feels sort of lonely in a funny way.
sosborn 6y ago
I’m with you on the SPAM protection, but I find the tabs and threading to be god awful.
- wintermutestwin 6y ago
  Love the tabs, but the threading is such a PITA thanks to their convoluted interface. Every time I want to selectively reply and change the subject line, I have do do a minor research project to figure it out.
- ehsankia 6y ago
  Tabs work flawlessly for me. It takes a little bit of time to get used to what goes where, and you can only use a subset of them, but in general, I love promotional emails being separate, so i can unsubscribe from them all in one place, that's my favorite.
Razengan 6y ago
I have never used Gmail and never needed to. iCloud mail has been good enough for 9 years. • Does not ask for phone number. • Allows actual aliases (instead of a self-defeating YourRealAddress+Alias@Gmail.com) • Does not sneakily sign you into Search and every other Google service when you just want to check your email. In addition to all the privacy advantages.
- Guidii 6y ago
  I'm confused. Doesn't iCloud mail require an apple id, which in turn requires a lot of your pii? https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204316 https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204316
  - Razengan 6y ago
    It didn't ask me for anything except a password and secret questions. (Someone is hell bent on downvoting any comments in favor of Apple)

curiousmindz 6y ago

Yahoo! Mail has one really cool feature: It supports actual browser-like tabs. So, it is possible to open multiple email conversations in parallel, as well as run some searches, and look at various folders.

paranorman 6y ago

They haven’t gotten much love on this site but I recently switched to hey.com after being a gmail user since beta in 2004 and couldn’t be happier. I like the “feed” for newsletter-y things (with a neat scroll to preview messages view) and the paper trail for transactions. There’s also something empowering about the simple “thumbs up” “thumbs down” screening queue for new senders. I will say, however, that I never realized just how infrequently I receive mail that actually warrants my attention (let alone a reply) and that feels sort of lonely in a funny way.

sosborn 6y ago

I’m with you on the SPAM protection, but I find the tabs and threading to be god awful.

wintermutestwin 6y ago
Love the tabs, but the threading is such a PITA thanks to their convoluted interface. Every time I want to selectively reply and change the subject line, I have do do a minor research project to figure it out.
ehsankia 6y ago
Tabs work flawlessly for me. It takes a little bit of time to get used to what goes where, and you can only use a subset of them, but in general, I love promotional emails being separate, so i can unsubscribe from them all in one place, that's my favorite.

Razengan 6y ago

I have never used Gmail and never needed to. iCloud mail has been good enough for 9 years. • Does not ask for phone number. • Allows actual aliases (instead of a self-defeating YourRealAddress+Alias@Gmail.com) • Does not sneakily sign you into Search and every other Google service when you just want to check your email. In addition to all the privacy advantages.

Guidii 6y ago
I'm confused. Doesn't iCloud mail require an apple id, which in turn requires a lot of your pii? https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204316 https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204316
- Razengan 6y ago
  It didn't ask me for anything except a password and secret questions. (Someone is hell bent on downvoting any comments in favor of Apple)