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Any recommendation on an iOS mail app. I use the Apple one, which is fine if uninteresting. The Fastmail app is not very modern looking which I superficially care about. Any reasonable looking non-Apple mail app reads my email or collects my data.

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What’s wrong with uninteresting? You can use it to read and send emails just fine and it looks ok, what else do you need? Honest question

Nothing wrong with it. I just like options -- colors, fonts, etc. I also don't expect Apple to innovate much on their mail client.

If you use FastMail, they're actually native push on iOS Mail because Apple allows them to be. Any other app would be IMAP polling.

I'm using Inbox for its last 4 months, I've tried a bunch of other ones and none of them are close to as good IMO. I'll miss it.

Would like to know as well. That said, I recently found that iOS Mail.app has a setting to disable automatic loading of remote images such as those used to creepily track email engagement metrics. Too bad there’s no way to block remote web fonts from being loaded too...but I haven’t seen any/many companies try to use that attack vector yet.

I hate to say it, but Outlook is actually really nice.

The desktop version or the web version?

All four

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ios

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Desktop

I hate hate hate web outlook. I click on new emails and they often don't register as having been "read". Drives me up the wall.

Same thing happens to me with Gmail. Weird.

Huh. I haven't had that issue with Outlook Web App. I have "Mark the item as read when the selection changes" selected in my options and I haven't noticed it failing.

Heavily disagree. The web version on mobile (android; both firefox and chrome) feels slow and works badly on low bandwidth connections and touch support feels badly designed (e.g. selecting multiple messages, working with attachments). On desktops/laptops the imap support is also subpar with problems with showing multiple drafts for one email in the web version.

This would maybe be excusable for a small startup, but for a company the size of Microsoft that is an embarrassing showing.

I think they're referring to the Outlook app, not the service

I second this. The web version is a mess of Skype and ads. But the iOS app is quite nice. It's got a built in calendar view with contacts.

https://www.postbox-inc.com/

Airmail or Spark.

Spark stores your email credentials and some of your mail on their servers. No-go for me.

Fastmail’s per-app password is a feature to handle this.

And Gmail uses OAuth. How does that change that fact you are giving some 3rd party access to your email?

My main concers are why they would provide a free service and what security they have in place.

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