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Re:Email doesn’t disappear by grandpoobah on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @06:36AM (#16800342)
They don't need to do anything, but IMO they should be doing more to enrich the email experience. Have your rock solid standard IMAP implementation, but if you've got a web client and apps for Android and iPhone why not make them better? I'm tired of having an inbox full of emails which I know I can't do anything with now because they are waiting on some other event to take place, I just want to be able to hit a Snooze button and have the email disappear for a few days. It's not that challenging of a feature for a dev team to implement is it?
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Re:Email doesn’t disappear by rovr138 on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @06:45AM (#16800369)
> I just want to be able to hit a Snooze button and have the email disappear for a few days.

* Create a folder 'On Hold'

* Move emails there

* Check in a couple days.

If you want alternatives, check AirMail. I find it's a good client on iOS and OS X that implements what you want

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Re:Email doesn’t disappear by grandpoobah on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @07:28AM (#16800538)
That is a terrible hack of a workaround and you know it :)

With Google Inbox (inbox.google.com) I can Snooze an email for [x] number of days and it'll be gone from my inbox and I don't have to think about it until it comes back. I use Inbox for personal email but I'd rather not be.

Airmail doesn't have a web client, and that's where most of my emailing takes place, so unfortunately it's not an option.

We use FrontApp on top of FastMail for customer service, it provides a bunch of useful features on top of email, such as the one I just mentioned. I could use it for my personal email but that would mean paying two monthly subscriptions. Plus it doesn't have spam filtering built in.

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Re:Email doesn’t disappear by asfdsfggtfd on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @07:42AM (#16800589)
> With Google Inbox (inbox.google.com) I can Snooze an email for [x] number of days and it'll be gone from my inbox and I don't have to think about it until it comes back.

And... You've just lost standards compliance so you can't use any standards compliant clients. This is a terrible hack of a workaround and you know it :)

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Re:Email doesn’t disappear by grandpoobah on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @05:05AM (#16809287)
No I haven't lost standards compliance. The feature does not interfere with IMAP at all. Sure, I don't get the useful features with a standards complaint client, but why would I expect to?
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