Love the minimalist approach - but not for business use. I use MixMax ( https://mixmax.com/ ) every day and the additional functionality its provided has been a big deal for me. More is more in a business use-case I think.
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#12Does it require a CloudMagic third party server to operate, or it is a plain vanilla email client?
The FAQ seems to imply that having a CloudMagic account just makes it so that you don't have to set up your email accounts on each device: http://help.cloudmagic.com/article/create-cloudmagic-account... They definitely use "the cloud", but their FAQ may be able to answer some of your questions there too: http://help.cloudmagic.com/section/security/
The FAQ is very light on details. No mention on how the mail is stored on their end
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#13Love the minimalist approach - but not for business use. I use MixMax ( https://mixmax.com/ ) every day and the additional functionality its provided has been a big deal for me. More is more in a business use-case I think.
Rohit from CloudMagic here. To build these 'additional functionality' on all platform, you need to roll out your own clients. We've started with the table stakes, stay tuned for those power features, across all devices. Extensions don't work on mobile devices and 70% of emailing is done on mobile today.
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#14After trying different email clients (Sparrow, Mailbox, Airmail, etc) just to see most of them getting abandoned, I've decided to simply stick to the native email clients provided by OS X and iOS and use fastmail.com with a custom domain name. Fastmail is about as flexible as it can get, their IMAP support for OS X mail.app is fantastic and their push notification service is actually better than Apple's (Fastmail pushes 'new/read/unread/delete' notifications, whereas Apple only pushes 'new'.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
The FAQ seems to imply that having a CloudMagic account just makes it so that you don't have to set up your email accounts on each device: http://help.cloudmagic.com/article/create-cloudmagic-account... They definitely use "the cloud", but their FAQ may be able to answer some of your questions there too: http://help.cloudmagic.com/section/security/
The FAQ is very light on details. No mention on how the mail is stored on their end
We store metadata of the last 14 days email on a rolling basis.
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#16After trying different email clients (Sparrow, Mailbox, Airmail, etc) just to see most of them getting abandoned, I've decided to simply stick to the native email clients provided by OS X and iOS and use fastmail.com with a custom domain name. Fastmail is about as flexible as it can get, their IMAP support for OS X mail.app is fantastic and their push notification service is actually better than Apple's (Fastmail pus…
I tried to stick with the native mail.app but found it to be buggy and broken in too many ways to be usable. Airmail seems to be working fine for me and doesn't seem to be abandoned.
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#18After trying different email clients (Sparrow, Mailbox, Airmail, etc) just to see most of them getting abandoned, I've decided to simply stick to the native email clients provided by OS X and iOS and use fastmail.com with a custom domain name. Fastmail is about as flexible as it can get, their IMAP support for OS X mail.app is fantastic and their push notification service is actually better than Apple's (Fastmail pus…
Seriously, try https://www.uniboxapp.com/. I've been using it on my Mac since beta, and now they have an iOS version. I haven't looked back since. It organizes email by person, like text messaging.
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#20After trying different email clients (Sparrow, Mailbox, Airmail, etc) just to see most of them getting abandoned, I've decided to simply stick to the native email clients provided by OS X and iOS and use fastmail.com with a custom domain name. Fastmail is about as flexible as it can get, their IMAP support for OS X mail.app is fantastic and their push notification service is actually better than Apple's (Fastmail pus…
I tried to stick with the native mail.app but found it to be buggy and broken in too many ways to be usable. Airmail seems to be working fine for me and doesn't seem to be abandoned.
Perhaps it depends with what services you use it?
Personally I've only ever used it with Apple's iCloud's mail service which worked great but didn't support custom domains. I also used it as a POP client for Gmail (mostly because Google's IMAP support initially was horrible and their tags didn't play well with IMAP folders back then).
I can say though that FastMail's IMAP service works flawlessly for me, and so does the mail.app client for it.
Yes, Airmail is still supported, but IMHO its UI suffers from severe feature creep. I also found it never reliably notified me that account passwords needed to be changed. I used it against MS Outlook, and whenever the password on the backend needed to be changed after 60 days, Airmail would simply sit there and not receive any new emails.