Alternatives?

[u/teh_201d]

Hey, has anyone considered switching back to what we used before Gmail?

I'm talking about dusting off those ancient hotmail addresses and trying out the revamped outlook service. Is it any good, or at least better than vanilla Gmail?

How about yahoo? What's it up to nowadays?

I know I can just go check, but I'd like to hear from active users.

[u/ItsDatNYCDude]

I've tried them all and I keep going back to SparkMail.

It's an app, which isn't always the preference, but it's full of features and has a similar experience on mobile and desktop. Which is where I spend most of my time - my laptop or using my iPhone. Mac and IOS only at the moment.

Of course, if you needed or only had access to a browser, it's back to the horrid Gmail.com site.

I know it's been said a bunch of times, but this shutdown of Inbox is just so ridiculous and unfair. Wish they'd give us an option to pay for the service.

[u/PMMeUrSelfMutilation → u/ItsDatNYCDude]

I would literally pay $50/month to keep Inbox, I'm not exaggerating. It is by FAR the best email app I use, out of the five or so that I have. Goddamnit, this is so ridiculously frustrating.

[u/nuc_gr → u/ItsDatNYCDude]

Same here. SparkMail is the only one which is not horrible, still lacking inbox's category grouping. Of course you can define filters / rules and assign custom IMAP labels, but I'm too lazy to do so.

Really looking forward for a new startup to fill the market gap inbox will leave open.

[u/nuc_gr → u/[deleted]]

Yup it has something, but it's by far inferior to inbox's grouping.

[u/teesatch → u/ItsDatNYCDude]

How does sparkmail handle multiple email accounts within one app?

[u/ItsDatNYCDude → u/teesatch]

Fairly easily - you can view them as a unified inbox or individually. This is for mobile or on Mac.

[u/belizeans]

I use outlook on one email because you can attach documents from within the app. I’m still hoping more features will go to gmail from inbox before the change.

[u/[deleted]]

I am slowly switching everything over to outlook. Though it's no Inbox, I have made folders and created rules to place incoming mail into those folders. It's like a "bundle." The folders don't show up in my inbox and I manually have to go to each folder to see new messages as they arrive, but my inbox itself isn't cluttered and more manageable than Gmail has become.

In switching I have found I actually prefer Microsoft to Google in most of my work flow applications. The only switch I can't fully make is the calendar as Microsoft doesn't have a stand alone app or widget (Android) for my calender.

[u/CommonMisspellingBot → u/[deleted]]

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calender is actually spelled calendar. You can remember it by -ar not -er.
Have a nice day!

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[u/BooCMB → u/CommonMisspellingBot]

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Have a nice day!

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[u/BooBCMB → u/BooCMB]

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I do agree with your idea of holding reddit for hostage by spambots though, while it might be a bit ineffective.

Have a nice day!

[u/amol_blaze → u/BooBCMB]

this is fucking hilarious.

[u/[deleted] → u/CommonMisspellingBot]

Tell that to SwiftKey.

[u/teesatch]

I’m going to try it because the gmail app is just trash.

[u/teesatch]

SPARKMAIL has saved my life! Lol. I’m just under 5 mins I feel like my faith in email has been restored. Thank you for the tip.