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0 pointsjosteink7y ago0 comments

Here's a few things:

- constantly changing things around. UI gets less intuitive for every release.

- slower for every release

- violates IMAP standard by re-using IDs across tags/IMAP folders, risking actual data loss. Example: if you in a real email-client try to delete a email from a single folder, you will also delete this email from all other folders it has been "tagged" in.

- similar IMAP issues with sent emails. Hard to track sent emails from email-client, unless you allow the email-client to explicitly save a copy to sent-emails folder. But then you suddenly have duplicate emails in the web-UI.

- Makes an open standard (internet email) proprietary.

- Hell to integrate with: See above.

I'm sure I could go on, but really. If you still consider GMail best in class, the only possible explanation is that you haven't seen anything else.

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chrisfinazzo7y ago

The messed up deletion behavior baffles me to this day. The stock mail app on iOS will behave correctly if you muck with the Gmail POP/IMAP settings and turn off 'Archive' in MobileMail, but I have zero confidence that this will work on macOS because Apple pays less attention to the desktop and Gmail don't give a crap if actual client applications work correctly.

They just assume everyone uses the web interface.

jrnichols7y ago

> They just assume everyone uses the web interface.

More likely, they want you using their app and their web interface, and merely tolerate third party apps. For now.

Google wants you in the Googleverse forever.

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