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Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

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post #517

I was forwarding something to my wife and I see this other person suggested in the recipient list. The weird way the suggestion UI is designed makes it look like they are already added, but I assumed I would have to select the person in the second forward box to add them. Anyway, I won't migrate for now though because I hardly use email anymore.

Same issue here. I want to migrate away, but rarely use email and I have it setup everywhere which would take quite some effort to pull off.

Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

#532

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my only problem with fastmail is their spam filtering is so bad. they mistake legit emails quite often

I agree. Their spam filtering is absolute trash. I get 3-4 spam messages a day in my inbox. I file support tickets for it and they always tell me there is nothing they can do.

See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380983

Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

#533
post #151

I can appreciate LLMs for some use cases, but writing emails for the user is the one that really baffles me. It's one thing if you don't speak English well and could use some help making yourself understood, but the amount of native speakers using this is so strange to me. How does this help you? If you can write to the LLM telling it what kind of email to write, you might as well just write the email.

21% of Americans are functionally illiterate. 54% of Americans read below a 6th grade level. Things that seem trivial to someone well-read can be insurmountable tasks for millions of people. Those people may do fine day to day, you don't need to write all that many emails for many if not most jobs, but when they do need to get their intentions across, things might get dicy. Or course this solution is far from perfect…

You have to be able to write enough to prompt an LLM. So why not just send the prompt, since that's what you actually said?

Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

#534

Looking for your alternative? Let me give you some (non financially motivated) praise for Fastmail. It has everything Gmail has - even app passwords, hide my email, and ios integration. The only criticism is the calendar doesn’t autocomplete addresses so that’s a bit more typing than I would like. But everything you do in Fastmail is instant . They live up to the name! Once you try it and go back, you’ll be shocked -…

Fastmail seems good but there’s some comfort from tutanota/protonmail promising to store my emails e2e encrypted (though they obviously can read them on send/receive). Have you tried them? What was your opinion?

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Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

#535

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I've been very happy with Protonmail, you can even use your old Gmail address from within Protonmail [0]. Although arguable doing that is counter productive, you want receive gmails but reply with you new address -> Yes this is the time to buy a domain and own an address for the rest of your life, so you can move again with little pain in the future ;) [0] https://proton.me/blog/proton-mail-connect-gmail

My problem with protonmail (and telegram) is that in my country, only scammers use those two services. So when I encounter these, I immediately distrust the person I'm interacting with and assume the worst. Even my one neighbor uses it and I distrust him immensely as he is not tech savvy yet he uses proton... its strange. How does he even know about it? He and his wife are not forth coming about what they do for a li…

Proton isn't used only by scammers.

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Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

#536
post #348

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+1 When I migrated from Gmail to Fastmail years ago, I thought Fastmail felt... less featureful. When I rarely visit my abandoned Gmail, I can't believe I put up with the clunkiness. Lean software stands the test of time. Fastmail hasn't had a noteworthy UI change ever. Minor annoyances: - Clicking an iPhone notification opens the app, but never brings me to the actual email - It is difficult to unfold the full exten…

Why are people accessing emails from the webUI. Email is SMTP and IMAP, use any number of clients to access your email.

A lot of providers don't give you imap anymore or it's an extra cost option. SMTP also comes with a ton of traps because of spam fighting measures.

Also monopolies and mobile devices and skill issues.

Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

#537
post #27

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Looking at the next iOS rumors, I think it's inevitable.

Looking at the way the stock market rewards companies that brainlessly shove AI into everything under the sun, I know it's inevitable.

Let’s wait and see how those three big IPOs go first…

Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

#538

Looking for your alternative? Let me give you some (non financially motivated) praise for Fastmail. It has everything Gmail has - even app passwords, hide my email, and ios integration. The only criticism is the calendar doesn’t autocomplete addresses so that’s a bit more typing than I would like. But everything you do in Fastmail is instant . They live up to the name! Once you try it and go back, you’ll be shocked -…

I've been very happy with Protonmail, you can even use your old Gmail address from within Protonmail [0]. Although arguable doing that is counter productive, you want receive gmails but reply with you new address -> Yes this is the time to buy a domain and own an address for the rest of your life, so you can move again with little pain in the future ;) [0] https://proton.me/blog/proton-mail-connect-gmail

My notes say: No IMAP or other way to export emails, they're trapped in the service. CEO is a Trump supporter.

Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

#539
If you want a Superhuman-like interface, that is running in TUI with neovim as a composer and a modern neomutt as a reader, check out neomd [1]. I'm the creator, so I'm biased, but I replaced my previously used HEY email with it. It has a screener and a GTD workflow built in.

Just in case, it works with any SMTP/IMAP setup like Fastmail, or any other. Proton mail works as well but need a little more to setup initially, even gmail (but much slower as the article explains, I noticed that too)

[1] https://neomd.ssp.sh

Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

#540
post #434
post #381

I've been on the very cheap Zoho mail for awhile and it's done everything I want it to do including meetings.

Just to say, Zoho is great as it has meetings / calendar etc which I need for things. I also just, today, tried purelymail and was also pretty awesome. $10 a year, I think multiple domains and users. Really nice.

I considered Zoho in the past, but to bloated with feature I don't need, IMO ity more suited for business and enterprise like Goofle Workspace.

Now I settled on Purelymail for the time being. It's simple and purely just email (pun intended).

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