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Ok — that should have been obvious to me! Yes, Spark definitely is "threaded view only." A year or so ago I brought this up to the support team and was told that they don't see an unthreaded view as necessary and it's not on the roadmap. So... if unthreaded is important to you — Spark isn't the best option.
As far as the unthreaded/ disabling conversation mode I can suggest Edison Mail (free).
You have to turn it off in the Settings at 'Organize Mail by Thread'.
It also offers a snooze option so reminder e-mails is also an option.
The send later option isn't part of the app but maybe you can suggest the developers to add that by reaching out to them.
The link bug seems also resolved now I think after testing that out earlier today. See earlier in this conversation what I'm referring to.
Another mail app option that seems to offer all three features that you look for is Airmail (4.99 dollar once).
Airmail is not my favorite but that is mainly related to the UI and the lack of showing attachments above an e-mail.
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AquaMail's Android only (well, at least it was last I heard from Kostya, it's primary developer).
After trying out a lot of email apps on the iPhone, I invariably revert to mail.app due to the clean interface. What I miss is the Push notification for my Grandfathered free Google apps mail.
I tried nuevasync on multiple occasions and it has never worked for me. What I would be satisfied with is a mail notifier kind of a light app, which indicated the new mail's arrival and I check it in mail.app
Any leads?
I have tried the email forwarding to icloud ( along with MS 365 paid service) and spoofing smtp option, but both are unreliable with skipping incoming emails on many occasions.
I tried nuevasync on multiple occasions and it has never worked for me. What I would be satisfied with is a mail notifier kind of a light app, which indicated the new mail's arrival and I check it in mail.app
Any leads?
I have tried the email forwarding to icloud ( along with MS 365 paid service) and spoofing smtp option, but both are unreliable with skipping incoming emails on many occasions.
I use gmail app with no badge and then open mail app , also I wish gmail app had customise notification sound for diff accounts.
I'm using Astro now for a few months and I love it but it has a few more bugs which tend to annoy me:
* when you try to to share an URL via Safari and select Astro to e-mail it to someone it seems to not work when the subject is missing
* when you try to to share an URL via Safari and select Astro to e-mail it to someone it seems to take longer then the 'regular' Apple mail app to share the link if it even works
* sometimes attachments such as a 14kb text only PDF file cannot open while they do show in Apple's own e-mail app or other apps.
It seems alot of third party email apps currently have issues.
Astro - certain PDF and Word (docx) attachments won't open
Spark and Edison Mail both have problems to show a badge icon
Both Spark and Edison released an update but this didn't fix the badge bug.
I have the notifications settings in Apple settings on for both these apps and also the badge icon settings within the apps itself to show when new e-mail arrives.
Astro - certain PDF and Word (docx) attachments won't open
Spark and Edison Mail both have problems to show a badge icon
Both Spark and Edison released an update but this didn't fix the badge bug.
I have the notifications settings in Apple settings on for both these apps and also the badge icon settings within the apps itself to show when new e-mail arrives.
If you are looking for badge notification, then Outlook is fast, even Gmail app is slow to display new email notification for gmail account. Both Spark and Edison seem to be inconsistent for displaying badge notification for new emails. And Apple Mail almost never shows the badge or it may be very slow that by the time the badge is updated, you are already notified by other email app and have checked it.. and Apple Mail misses that unread email to display the badge.
Outlook isn't perfect though, it doesn't sync email drafts created using the web interface (gmail) on the PC.. so I tend to use Outlook mostly for new email notification and then read the email in Gmail app.
Outlook isn't perfect though, it doesn't sync email drafts created using the web interface (gmail) on the PC.. so I tend to use Outlook mostly for new email notification and then read the email in Gmail app.
Define safe? Read their security and privacy statement I guess you won't use this app then. I use a Gmail e-mail account and using a third party e-mail apps and having push notifications automatically makes it that the third party e-mail app has some sort of details about your account. See also Airmail's statement on that. I'm ok with that but if you are asking this then I guess Astro won't be something for you.
It has a conversation mode that you can't turn off. Otherwise I would have mentioned in when you earlier asked for apps that have an option to turn that off.
Outlook is fast indeed but I'm not a fan of their UI though. Or did things recently change? I'm now sticking with Astro which is also really fast with the badge icon and it works
but they really need to fix this attachment bug that is causing that some PDF and Word files cannot be opened within the app but do work in other apps. The share sheet is a solution to open these now but not really fast.
I've always been a fan of using individual mail apps. I currently have the gmail and Yahoo mail apps installed on my iPhone.
Since the iOS app update version 3.0.6 from the Astro app from the 21st of February (yesterday) all my PDF attachments open again within the app without any problems. Also the PDF file attachments which previously didn't open.
I did notice an docx file attachment still can't be opened and shows: "Office Open XML-textdocument 1,1MB" when I click on the attachment. I now use the Share Sheet to open up the file in the WPS Office app (great app btw).
Attach images should be possible with loads of third party e-mails such as Astro, Spark, Edison Mail and Airmail for example. Especially Spark and Astro have a separate picture/image button when you select attachments. If you actually want inline images I'm not certain. You should just try that out. The first three e-mails apps that I mentioned are all free.
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Has anyone used Newton extensively? I'm on the 14 day trial now and it's not bad, but I know it's $50/year to subscribe. I know and understand they need to charge to keep the service up and running, but is it really worth $50/year given the amount of other alternate email apps available in the App Store?
I have been using it for over a year now. Pretty happy with it overall. Great features and good customer service.
I'm not doubting your experience, but for posterity I'd just like to share mine...
I found there pre-sales support to be atrocious, had a bunch of questions, they kept missing many of my points/Qns, I kept pointing out what they'd missed. They continued to not address the remainders or gave vague/lazy responses, this went on for ridiculously long, eventually they just completely ignored me despite multiple -well spaced- nudges. The whole thing was really, really bad, & the tenor of most of their responses reeked of arrogance, terse, lazy, smart-arsery etc.
By contrast. I've found Readdle to be VASTLY better in the area of support, both pre-sales & after-sales, for products not related to email clients I've bought from them.* They have routinely gone way above & beyond what they've needed to do, & given highly-detailed, timely, friendly, & thoughtful responses, despite the odd bit of pedantry on my part!
*N.B. they do have a competing email client
Yeah complete opposite experience. Whenever I contacted them they responded appropriately and fixed whatever issue or answered whatever question. Not sure what sort of questions you asked or what tone you used but maybe there was a reason they responded like that? But maybe not...
I used Spark for a while but it doesn't have what I need, which is color coded unified inbox so I can differentiate which account the email is coming from. Since I use business & personal email together this was important, and Newton is the only app that I found that has that. They also have Windows app which I need for my desktop. Spark is also free, so if Readdle isn't getting their money from you, they're likely getting it somehow. I'm suspicious of free products and would rather support the developers directly
I've used Newton for many years. I love the ability to sync ALL of my email accounts on many different cross-platform devices. I subscribe for the superchargers ... although you do NOT need to subscribe or pay any money to get the most out of Newton.