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its absolutely crazy how bad some fundamentals are in gmail. its impossible to autocomplete or find recipients. if you try to archive a fresh email while gmail

its absolutely crazy how bad some fundamentals are in gmail. its impossible to autocomplete or find recipients. if you try to archive a fresh email while gmail tries to mark it as read, which takes multiple seconds for some reason, the archiving fails. search is unusable and fails to surface even trivial queries. There is no activity trail so its impossible to tell if you accidentally archived or deleted an email eg. because your phone unlocked in your pocket. the list goes on. the only change since the google inbox shutdown i could see was added whitespace in the ui.

nine_k 3y ago
I fail to corroborate some of these complaints. Autocompletion of addresses from address book or previous emails works fine for me. Search is pretty good. As of an audit log of actions like archving, which other large services offer it? I don't remember e.g. Outlook having it. The log would be pretty large, with rather few users. GMail did not change materially in last few years, and I'm fine with that; the desktop version is pretty fine. I miss bulk actions in the Android client though. (I I were to move to another email service, I'd be afraid to lose the system of labels. Both Proton, Fastmail, and Outlook have labels, but I'm not certain that the existing GMail labels would would export to any of these. Self-hosted email does not offer labels easily at all. Local labels are possible with e.g. notmuch, but that won't be shareable between desktop and mobile, for instance.)
- protonmail 3y ago
  Hi! Note that if you import your emails from Gmail into Proton Mail via our Easy Switch, the labels will be imported too: https://proton.me/easyswitch https://proton.me/easyswitch. During the process, you're also given an option to select what you wish to import and what you wish to leave out. If you encounter any issues during the import, please contact us at: https://proton.me/support/contact https://proton.me/support/contact.

nine_k 3y ago

I fail to corroborate some of these complaints. Autocompletion of addresses from address book or previous emails works fine for me. Search is pretty good. As of an audit log of actions like archving, which other large services offer it? I don't remember e.g. Outlook having it. The log would be pretty large, with rather few users. GMail did not change materially in last few years, and I'm fine with that; the desktop version is pretty fine. I miss bulk actions in the Android client though. (I I were to move to another email service, I'd be afraid to lose the system of labels. Both Proton, Fastmail, and Outlook have labels, but I'm not certain that the existing GMail labels would would export to any of these. Self-hosted email does not offer labels easily at all. Local labels are possible with e.g. notmuch, but that won't be shareable between desktop and mobile, for instance.)

protonmail 3y ago
Hi! Note that if you import your emails from Gmail into Proton Mail via our Easy Switch, the labels will be imported too: https://proton.me/easyswitch https://proton.me/easyswitch. During the process, you're also given an option to select what you wish to import and what you wish to leave out. If you encounter any issues during the import, please contact us at: https://proton.me/support/contact https://proton.me/support/contact.