What are good alternate clients that still get all benefits of Gmail, but with a fast productive interface?
The reason is b/c thunderbird doesnt have a good reply monitor,threading for conversations or plugins to handle it. I have to buy things from vendors all the time and manufacturer reps always never do their job properly until I remind them 2 to 5x (not an exaggeration) over the course of 2 weeks. The reason is b/c most are all low tech and cant manage emails. I wish I could just bypass them entirely but its complicated.
Sometimes vendors dont use emails like purchasing@company.com and use name@company.com and dont tell me they fired their sales rep and hired a new one. So sometimes my emails go to deadlinks again and thunderbird has no monitoring solution and poor conversation threading.
Its becoming a huge hassle for me so I need a better tracking system. Gmail has many integrations for this though on the other hand.
I dont know if I care all that much about privacy in all honesty. I am more worried about getting vendor locked through google,so I might set an smtp/imap account with thunderbird for my google emails.
The new google gmail is not really that bad in all honesty. It loads slow starting out but it does not bother me though. Some of the view modes make my eyes bleed though UX is beyond atrocious especially with attachments.
Nothing is as _good_ as GMail, which is the most frustrating part, but FastMail gets pretty close in my experience.
I guess disclaimer that I did some brief consulting work with them years ago to explore WKWebView usage in their app; I only recently started using them myself, though, so my opinions at this point are more influenced by that than anything else.
I like FastMail’s webmail better than Gmail today, but not quite as much as Gmail ~10 years ago.
A couple of messages on their forum here, but nothing from Google
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/nP0YcpI...
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/9k8Y3Yn...
1. Apple. Really.
2. Setting up your own Linode with postfix, dovecot and roundcube is just a half of an hour. Domain name registration is about an hour.
Of course, you won't get any services, which is the main product Google is trying to sell indirectly (it monetizes your content, services are free as long as you your generate content).
And you are right the interface not only gets in your way, most of the time it doesn't open the email when you click on it. Incredible that at Google those praised engineers make a unusable product.
Why can't Google simply keep the classic version alive? (the one they just replaced)
A fully-featured integrated calendar is lacking but apparently will be improved in the coming year or so.
The slowness, lag, ugly font. Even scrolling is laggy. I'm just waiting for it to respond often. Sitting around waiting for the collapsible sidebar to collapse.