Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

Re:Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail? by nift on Monday September 24, 2018 @04:46AM (#18056007)

I don't know if fast mail provides it out of the box but I have started to test out spark: https://sparkmailapp.com/ as a replacement for Inbox. While it is a bit from as good as Inbox it can get the job done, and has bundling.

I simply set it up to archive when swiping (which is what Inbox seems to be doing). However, it's notifications are far from as good and you can't archive straight from the notification, which, to me, is a let down.

Furthermore, on iPhone 8 there is an actual loading screen when opening the app. Like, why? Everything is already stored in the phone and it should just look for new mail in the background?

So far from perfect, but what can one do when Google is killing stuff off.

One issue though: you have to be in the apple ecosystem as they do not support, anything but iOS/Mac OS.

Note: I'm not associated with spark in any way.

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Re:Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail? by alienreborn on Monday September 24, 2018 @08:12AM (#18056997)

FYI: They store your credentials on their servers. Its not like outlook/thunderbird where you credentials are stored locally.

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Re:Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail? by nift on Monday September 24, 2018 @03:01PM (#18060388)

Thanks for letting me know! Did not know that.

That is quite scary to be honest and do you know the reason as to why they do this?

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Re:Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail? by Lalabadie on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @10:36PM (#18072271)

I believe that's only if you enable and use Send Later (because they need to be able to send an email in your name, even if your device is offline).

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Re:Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail? by mcjiggerlog on Monday September 24, 2018 @07:07AM (#18056651)

Looks pretty promising but it's not available on either Linux (I can't believe an email client has no web app!) or Android...

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