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Re:Sunrise is shutting down by harlanlewis on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @01:58PM (#11677618)
It's a bit unexpected, but I've found Outlook to be the best iOS email client these days. It's bloated and has quite a few rendering bugs, but for the basic email-as-task-list workflow pioneered by Mailbox et al I haven't come across any current players that are better.

Kind of sad that the explosion of clever email and calendar apps a few years ago has collapsed into a handful that aren't as good as we used to have.

Re:Sunrise is shutting down by Dirlewanger on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @04:13PM (#11678839)
Their web application rewrite that they did last year though is hot disgusting garbage. I don't know how they managed to make something so slow and sluggish as the "new" Outlook. Downright embarrassing.
Re:Sunrise is shutting down by FussyZeus on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @02:01PM (#11677653)
+1 to this, I LOVE Outlook on iOS. It's got issues for sure but overall it's the best one I've used, and I've used a lot of them.
Re:Sunrise is shutting down by Randuin on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @02:05PM (#11677679)
I wish there was something like it just for Calendaring though. Especially on the desktop. For email I'm already using Polymail full time and it's a hassle to have two email clients just for calendar.
Re:Sunrise is shutting down by grinich on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @02:14PM (#11677767)
What do you use for calendaring right now?

What do you wish it did?

Re:Sunrise is shutting down by brerlapn on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @04:52PM (#11679156)
Not the OP, but on my Android device I have an easier time of calendaring since basically any app I choose will show all of the calendars I want (personal, my work calendar, my manager's calendar, my team's calendar) in the same space. For desktop, I did have Sunrise's desktop app until I noticed I wasn't getting a proper sync of some (apparently random) appointments from desktop to cloud/mobile, and even more so because I accepted an appointment via Sunrise and it changed my email alias in the response from my actual address to Sunrise's generic "[email protected]" so that people then started emailing me at the generic email rather than my actual address.

Most of my calendars are Google Apps. Outlook was my backup for the work calendar using the Google Apps Outlook Sync app (although I've noticed a few sync failures there, too), and just adding additional calendars to Outlook without having all of my email there too looks like it requires some kind of arcane magick. Thunderbird+Lightning got rotated out of the mix quickly due to a lot of issues syncing and getting multiple calendars into it.

Probably because everyone we're communicating with is mixing between Google Apps/webview calendar and Outlook or Office 365, I also find that I regularly can't see an appointment that is emailed to me in my email client as it shows up as an .ics file attachment instead.

So featurewise:

- Most important for me: Easy addition of multiple calendars, where I can just select which calendar a new appt should be added, as easily as I can in my Android clients- I hate using web clients for calendaring, and they never really show multiple calendars well. NOTE: I mean that the calendar has a direct sync to each of the calendars online, not having one main account to which I have to share all of my other calendars. I want one place where I can go to view and create appointments and then have them also show up in their respective accounts. - Supports open standards like CalDAV/CardDAV as well as syncs to Google or Office 365 (I can select a provider like Fastmail that uses CalDAV for my personal calendar, but I'm stuck with Google or O365 for work) - Desktop client, multiple views (agenda, today, week, month) - drag-and-drop of items into the calendar to create a new appointment - "Send to calendar" from an email as an option - Categorization/tagging on an appointment would be nice - Outlook allows this but Google doesn't seem to allow tagging appointments like you can email

A bit of a data dump, but a desktop client that handles multiple calendars well is surprisingly difficult to find in Windows. I happily pay for a number of otherwise free services (Pandora, Evernote, Pocket, Lastpass, etc.), but there really isn't even a pay option.

Re:Sunrise is shutting down by tdkl on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @05:44PM (#11679581)
Did you try eMClient? One of the rare clients that does *DAV on Windows.
Re:Sunrise is shutting down by brerlapn on Thursday May 12, 2016 @11:23PM (#11688434)
Thanks, I hadn't heard of it but I'll see how it works.
Re:Sunrise is shutting down by jmiserez on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @04:26PM (#11678925)
Does it still store your credentials on their servers and proxy all your mail through the US [1], or has that been fixed?

Or is/was this FUD?

https://blog.winkelmeyer.com/2015/01/warning-microsofts-outl...

Re:Sunrise is shutting down by rayiner on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @02:53PM (#11678123)
> I've found Outlook to be the best iOS email client these days

Aside from being a massive security risk.

Re:Sunrise is shutting down by tptacek on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @03:56PM (#11678703)
In what sense?
Re:Sunrise is shutting down by rayiner on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @04:07PM (#11678797)
My understanding is that Outlook for iOS uses a cloud service that talks to the Exchange server and stores your credentials/data: https://blog.winkelmeyer.com/2015/01/warning-microsofts-outl.... So logging in involves giving Microsoft (and indirectly Amazon, since it runs on AWS), clear-text access to your information.
Re:Sunrise is shutting down by Velox on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @05:37PM (#11679537)
Your credentials aren't stored in clear text. They are encrypted with a key only your device has.
Re:Sunrise is shutting down by wglb on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @06:38PM (#11679939)
So how do these creds get to the exchange server from the cloud?
Re:Sunrise is shutting down by SilasX on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @06:12PM (#11679782)
So? You have no expectation of privacy in email anyway, right?
Re:Sunrise is shutting down by rayiner on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @06:49PM (#11680008)
My Exchange server is 15 feet down the hall. When I use a normal Exchange client, the only people who can see my data in clear-text are myself and my employer (who owns the Exchange server). Anyone in-between just sees an encrypted stream. But when I use Outlook for iOS, people I've never met at Amazon and Microsoft can see my email.

I think the former situation creates a legitimate expectation of privacy. I think the latter situation does not. Which is why I use Apple Mail instead of Outlook for iOS.

Re:Sunrise is shutting down by SilasX on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @07:03PM (#11680092)
Something visible to anyone in your employer's management -- hence work email in general -- doesn't have an expectation of privacy.
Re:Sunrise is shutting down by rayiner on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @07:25PM (#11680216)
The company has an expectation of privacy with respect to those emails. Its employees aren't third parties with respect to it.
Re:Sunrise is shutting down by SilasX on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @08:10PM (#11680427)
Okay, but if you're going to accept that kind of situation as creating an expectation of privacy across several parties, then you can just as well say that Google + me have an expectation of privacy with respect to my Gmail communications.

And yet somehow there's always someone saying, "well, you let Gmail employees run programs that aggregate data over its contents, therefore it's not really violating your privacy when a government investigator looks at them without a warrant". Which is it?

Re:Sunrise is shutting down by rayiner on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @08:35PM (#11680513)
The difference is ownership and control. The company owns its exchange server. It allows employees access under controlled conditions, for the employer's purposes. It's like leaving stuff in your garage that your lawn guy might have access to. But the company doesn't own Google's server. It has little control over how Google accesses that data. And Google accesses that data for its own purposes. That's more like leaving your stuff in someone else's garage.

Now, Google has a 4th amendment right with respect to "your" mail sitting on its servers, even though its employees have access to it. Because it's really "Google's mail," stored on Google's property, under Google's control.

Re:Sunrise is shutting down by overcast on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @02:36PM (#11677974)
You should check out https://www.uniboxapp.com, I switched to it during the first beta testing, and haven't looked back. Originally it was a Mac OSX only client, but now on iPhone and iPad. Organizes email by the person you're communicating with, like text messaging. Obviously an email client only, and not a super duper corporate client.
Re:Sunrise is shutting down by colinbartlett on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @03:13PM (#11678305)
Outlook on iOS is great. It used to be called Acompli until it was acquired by Microsoft. I had long hoped all of the Sunrise features would be incorporated into Outlook before Microsoft shut it down, but no such luck.