I really wish Apple / iCloud mail wasn’t so poo. It’s a service I pay for (indirectly) and would like to use as my sole email service but losing emails into a folder / into the ether whenever I want to come back and find something is insanely frustrating. It feels almost unusable sometimes.
@AndyNicolaides It’s great until something happens that’s so head-scratching, it’s unbelievable. I lost a load of emails a few weeks ago refining my folders. Gone, nowhere to be seen. They’re still counted in the ‘Flagged’, but aren’t there. Still, it does me.
@BenSouthwood yeah I’ve had something similar with some emails I was looking for recently. I know I saved them to a folder but they are long gone. Despite paying for it I think I’ll need to use HEY or Fastmail or something to get something reliable. Or just go back to gmail.
@AndyNicolaides I’ve been using Google Workspace in its various iterations for email since 2007. I don’t love it but it works.
@AndyNicolaides I can’t justify paying for Hey, though I do like it. I don’t get enough important email to be honest.
@BenSouthwood no, that’s a very fair point and in the same to be honest. But also don’t want to keep losing the few emails I do need. Are you sticking with iCloud for now? Gmail is, annoyingly, on the horizon haha.
@MitchW yeah gmail is boring, ugly and … Google. But you’re right it defo does a job and emails don’t generally disappear into a black hole!
@AndyNicolaides Yes, I’m sticking with iCloud. I take some of the responsibility for the mails disappearing, I wasn’t careful enough but was taken aback that they weren’t in the deleted folder when I got rid of said folder. Lesson learned. Aside from that, with the aliases for newsletters, shopping, etc, it works pretty well for me. Not as pretty as Hey, but functional.
@BenSouthwood right, makes sense! Perplexity tells me the desktop client search is a lot better / more robust than web or the iOS all (where I use it 99% of the time) so maybe direct everything to iCloud for a bit and see how it holds up. You’re right the aliases and ‘hide my address’ or whatever it’s called is very handy also.
@AndyNicolaides Thing is with Apple it works magnificently for so much of the time that when a problem arises we may blow it out of proportion. I couldn’t work out why notifications from my wife weren’t coming to my phone, discovered they were coming to my Mac and being opened automatically.