Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving

Re:Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving by black_puppydog on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @06:55PM (#32586947)

Jup. Even using thunderbird with a gmail account it's not great. Google insists on displaying my emails in multiple locations; among others, sent emails show up in the default inbox folder. WTF google?

Anyhow, I am so happy I recently took the time to set up thunderbird for my gsuite account at work. I've been using thunderbird for a long time privately and the UX is just so much better than gmail, it really improved my quality of life during work hours.

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Re:Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving by Avamander on Thursday August 25, 2022 @05:20AM (#32591423)

It's not that Google insists, it's that IMAP is antiquated and JMAP doesn't fix it either. Same letter in multiple "folders" should've been added to IMAP/JMAP aeons ago.

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Re:Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving by account42 on Friday August 26, 2022 @07:54AM (#32606162)

So why didn't google add it to IMAP when they added the feature to their mail system? There is no point in clients adding support for label-like folders if there is no server using that extension including the servers that do actually have labels. Gmail on the other hand is big enough that by now most non-Outlook clients would have picked up support.

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Re:Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving by Avamander on Friday August 26, 2022 @12:09PM (#32609240)

Because IMAP is not theirs to dictate.

Maybe if someone standardised such an extension they'd add support. Considering how ossified email is, they rightfully have little interest to do it alone.

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