MailMate (Mac) – By the numbers, this artisanal Mac-assed Mac app built by a solo developer, positively festooned with low-level power user customisation features advertised as “experimental” or “proof-of-concept” in the web-based manual, should be right up my alley. Despite supporting almost every platform under the sun, Canary Mail ships native apps for all of them. A security- and privacy-forward choice, Canary Mail proves that securing your data needn’t come at the expense of a polished user experience. Apple Mail on macOS 12 MontereyĬanary Mail (Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch) – Also for Android and Windows. The fact that it’s included for free with Apple’s operating systems is probably what makes it so hard for alternatives to make an honest buck, and why a cottage industry of add-ons and extensions exists for it. Despite a patchy record of quality in the past decade, which has included some almost unusably buggy releases, Apple’s bundled app remains more of a robust all-rounder than almost any competitor (mostly just because of how long it’s been around). These are the apps that made my shortlist:Īpple Mail (Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch) – AKA Mail.app. Otherwise, strap in for some obsessive comparison-shopping! If you’re in a hurry, feel free to skip to the end to see what I chose. So with the time I saved on shopping for email hostsĮmail clients for my Apple-ecosystem devices. With Protonmail and iCloud+ the only others that seemed viable to me.īut I do love a good deep-dive into competing software, The list of alternative email hosts is actually pretty short, On the custom data compression it does to optimise its web app. Neil Jenkins presented at Web Directions Code 2019 Honestly, I’ve been thinking of switching to Fastmail since The option best suited to my needs and tastes.įastmail was it: an Australian indie success storyĪnd solid engineering. I could have just switched to the paid version, or moved my email, calendarĪnd contacts to a free individual Google account,īut this seemed like an opportunity to survey the field and pick The free version of G Suite that I’ve used for over a decade. Many little UI bugs that appear when you try to import and edit recipients for campaigns/sequences.After Google announced it was shutting down Should have never been released to the customers like that. SO basically the message I created was altered by the system. ![]() Images that I had added to a message that was sent out to many many people were missing, simply gone by the time the sequence was sent out. This function should be disabled at this point. But go ahead and send this message and open it in another email client: the images are distorted/stretched beyond recognition. Two examples: You can no resize/scale images inside a message. I get the feeling that they are too excited to launch new functions and ignore the basics of quality control. The User-Interface is, to say it mildly, not very intuitive. The campaigns and sequences are a great promotion tool. As a subscription customer you can see who and when someone opened your mail, if the clicked a link, downloaded a file - brilliant for business use. When I really need to know if an attachment has been downloaded or when I need to get a message to many people. Excited at first and way too often frustrated with a bloated and unintuitive application.
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