Hello Lemmy, I would like to know how do you all read email.

  • What email clients (or web UI) do you use? And on what platform?
  • What is something you don’t like from the client?
  • What is something you like from the client?
  • What is something you don’t like from the email service?
  • What is something you like from the email service?.
  • Is there a feature you would like your client implemented?
  • Do you have any particular method or workflow of going through and extensive inbox?

If you have any other comment it would be appreciated as well.

On my computer I use the web interface and on my phone I use Thunderbird. One thing I do is to delete or archive any message that does not need any action, and it has been a blessing, my emails are so much easier to go through.

That’s all, thank you in advance.

  • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch
    4·
    10 days ago

    What email clients (or web UI) do you use? And on what platform?

    Mail on iOS, macOS

    What is something you don’t like from the client.

    Searching is difficult because you have to keep fighting with it.

    • What is something you like from the client.

    The UI, its ability to block remote content.

    What is something you don’t like from the email service.

    I’m confused by this part, are you talking about the email client or email provider?

    I use primarily Gandi, and I don’t like their pricing model.

    What is something you like from the email.

    I love their spam headers and Sieve filtering.

    Is there a feature you would like your client implemented?

    Not really, most my problems with email come from how it’s implemented on various servers (lack of encryption) and its support for HTML rather than something more sane, like Markdown.

    Do you have any particular method or workflow of going through and extensive inbox?

    Not really, I just quickly work through the emails.

    • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      Technically, email supports markdown, it’s just not used by anyone. Email was invented many years before markdown, so it’s probably just more of a legacy thing than anything else.

        • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          9 days ago

          The protocol supports anything. You can send an email in PDF format. And I don’t mean with a PDF attachment, I mean the email itself is formatted as a PDF.

          The default that’s required to be supported by every client is text/plain, and the standard on top of that is text/html, but you can provide text/markdown instead if you want. If the client doesn’t support displaying markdown, it will probably let the user save it like it was an attachment. But, since you don’t really know what client the other user is using, the only really safe thing to send is text/plain.

          You can also provide both markdown and plain text (and even just use the same text, since markdown is perfectly readable) inside a multipart/alternative. Then every client should be able to display it.