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Does their mobile app support push email, rather than polling?

• zumzumzum 4y ago
  Yes it does.
  • nicolaslem 4y ago
    But notifications do not actually download messages. This means that pressing a notification opens the app, but shows a blank page for a second or two while downloading the message. This was annoying enough that I stopped using their mobile app for a native client.
    • mikepurvis 4y ago
      Dang, that's annoying— you'd think pre-downloading pushed emails would have been a standard feature for like the past twenty years, given how Mike Lazaridis used to talk about that in speeches and keynotes as one of his, like, critical insights when directing the engineering of the original BlackBerry units, like "hey guys, what if we waited to buzz the device until the message was fully downloaded and actually ready to read?"
• moonlighter 4y ago
  They also support native Apple iOS push notifications (not just for new mail, but also edits/deletes IIRC), so their integration with Apple's native iOS mail app is outstanding. Been using FastMail that way for years and it's been working flawlessly. About the only time I use the Fastmail app is when I want to reply to an email sent to a catch-all address and reply from that address (haven't found a way to do that from the native Apple mail app).