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Comment by jhrmnn | Hacker News Reader

Just wondering: why don't you use your phone's native email app and IMAP?

My use case might not be too common, but I use fastmail with multiple aliases and the official app is the only way for me to send emails with these different aliases.

Another reason is the lack of push notification (not sure if i'm using the right term) when using the built in gmail app for fastmail. It only gives me the option to poll every 15 minutes. The gmail app also doesn't support actions like snooze, swipe to archive etc on non-gmail accounts and I like having that in the fast mail app.

> My use case might not be too common, but I use fastmail > with multiple aliases and the official app is the only > way for me to send emails with these different aliases.

I'm doing exactly this from Android with Aquamail.

Do you have to configure the individual alias in the app? If so I can see it getting really tedious to keep it in sync with the aliases inside fastmail.

Yes indeed you do have to create the aliases you want to send from.

Android 10 (at least on my Pixel 2) doesn't have a native email app (other than Gmail), though of course there are lots of options.

last time i checked, gmail supports generic IMAP accounts as well.

But then you're using gmail.

we were talking about the android app, not the web service.

said android app supports generic IMAP accounts and doesnt need to be paired to a google account to work with them.

But the smallest sync interval is 15 minutes and it won't sync sub folders until you open them.

It's not usable for real work, and I'm pretty sure that's how Google likes it.

Fairemail let's you specify different reply from addresses (if allowed on the server). I use this with mailfence.

Yeah, I've just got Gmail as a 'native' app. Which sort of defeats the purpose of switching to Fastmail for me hah.

My reason: they recently rolled out message snoozing on the server side (this is normally achieved by client apps), however the native Mail app doesn't support this.

Fastmail's iOS app does support this functionality.

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