My requirements are simple:

  1. I am able to search past emails and view them.

  2. Able to “Mark as read” from the notification popup.

  3. No ads

My experiences are mixed:

Fairmail, Aquamail (when it was good) , K9, Thunderbird and similar apps **satisfied ** 2) and 3). However, they all failed at 1). The searches either return nothing or take a long time to load. So I have to swap to a browser , go to Gmail then search from there.

Outlook sucks at 3). Sometimes it gives me random ads within my inbox. It does 2) very well. For 1), it can retrieve the searches better than the group above , but not reliable.

The Gmail app excels at 1), it fails at 2) and 3). The ads within the app are not that terrible, but stil very annoying. It’s been years and we still couldnt “Mark as read” from the notification. Surprisingly, Gmail works for 1) all the time.

Which one do you use?

  • limerod@reddthat.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I use FairEmail. I have most of emails downloaded on device and those which aren’t can be searched from the server.

    You can contact the dev by filling an online request form. Maybe, he can help with your search issue.

  • Martin@feddit.nuEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Spark, it reminds me of Google inbox (although I’m still bitter over Google killing inbox).

    I use the free tier of Spark, and have never felt a need to upgrade. The free version contains all the features I need.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I use the Gmail app. I’ve never seen any ads in it, where do you see them?

    It doesn’t have “mark as read”, no, but it does have archive. Why do you want to leave items in your inbox but read?

    • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The “social” tab it created almost always has at least one sponsored message at the top.

          • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Settings, inbox categories. I have them all unchecked and the app works perfectly smoothly for me.

            • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Oh, I thought there was a way to disable the sponsored crap. I like getting all the linkedin nonsense filtered. I suppose I could just unsubscribe too.

              • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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                2 months ago

                Yeah I mostly just unsubscribe from that stuff. Gmail even gives you a button for it. Although recently Linkedin started a new type of email, and if I click their unsubscribe button it just goes to the top-level notification settings, which I already turned off, so those ones I just started marking as spam. Now they all go to the spam folder.

        • SinningStromgald@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Apparently if you dont use inbox categories you won’t see them. So that might be why you haven’t. Personally I like them. The sponsored emails are easy to ignore and not seeing the spam from Linkden, that I only use when job hunting, in the main inbox is nice. Any sites I’ve bought from that sends sale emails gets shunted into Promotional so they dont clog my inbox either.

      • Lka1988@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I turned those off the moment they appeared in my gmail account. Don’t understand why others still use them.

  • Engywook@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Uhm… Search world correctly in Fairemal here, even when search is performed on the server (not locally).

  • HeyJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I actually forgot. Just looked, and it’s just Outlook. I thought I used something else and remembered I did years ago. Just looked for it and I think it was called BlueMail but I tried looking it up, and it looks like it went really downhill. Years ago, I loved it. I’m guessing that’s why I switched at some point.

  • kirk781@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    2 months ago

    There is one called FairEmail. While it technically has a pro version (one time purchase), but most of the needed features are available on the free tier. Plus it’s available on F Droid as well, so that’s a plus and is continuously maintained.