Web, Android, Windows.
It's either nerfed or stupidified (Web 3.0-style, also in some offline clients), or missing basic features, or doesn't work right (Android clients), or a mess (Thunderbird)...
Personal computing discussed
just brew it! wrote:... can even write my own one-off tools to scrape old e-mail folders for whatever purpose.
meerkt wrote:... missing basic features ...
Flying Fox wrote:May I ask what other "basic features" are missing?
Igor_Kavinski wrote:Nowadays Outlook Live? Microsoft naming needs work.hotmail
meerkt wrote:Also not a fan of its messy storage, but that's probably a problem with all clients.
meerkt wrote:Not that I ever found a client that does it much better.
meerkt wrote:Though the immediate things that lead to this thread were Web and Android clients.
meerkt wrote:Igor_Kavinski wrote:Nowadays Outlook Live? Microsoft naming needs work.hotmail
meerkt wrote:BTW, I don't get (web) Outlook's two-level recycle bin.
Deleting "Deleted Items" moves them into "Recoverable Items".
IreneAdler wrote:I use the Mozilla Suite for a few years and I have no issues. Luckily I think
meerkt wrote:Yahoo Web:
Reply -> enter text -> delete quoted previous correspondence.
Result: Entered text is magically sent in quoted style (even though it didn't look like that before sending).
The receivers, depending on their client, may see an empty message and have to click to expand quoted block. Also when they use Yahoo Web. :-/
(Why doesn't email use forum style formatting and quoting? Makes much more sense.)
just brew it! wrote:Or, possibly, it exists to satisfy retention policies for some segment of industry/government.