• wander1236@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    The Mail app looked great, but I would hardly call it perfect. It constantly failed to notify me of new emails or calendar events, and I know I’m not alone in that.

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      10 months ago

      Desktop mail clients all seem to be dire, but Mail for Windows 10 seemed to suck a lot less than anything else. I, too, am a victim of it not noticing new mail for a couple of hours after it’s sent unless I explicitly refresh it, despite it being set to get new mail on push, but I’d still rather use it over Thunderbird, which I tried years ago, and tried again when they started warning about forcing Outlook onto people. Unfortunately, it looks like Mozilla decided that there were a non-zero number of good things about Outlook, and made a clone of it, as it’s got basically all the things I hate about Outlook.

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        9 months ago

        I use thunderbird at home and outlook at work and prefer thunderbird. It works nicely with my catch-all mailserver so it automatically uses the correct outgoing address.

        Searching for mails is also a breeze compared to outlook.

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        9 months ago

        That may be the fault of your mail server. If Mail has a connection to it, but it never gets a push for new mail, it won’t notify you.

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          9 months ago

          The mail server for the accounts I’ve noticed it struggling with is GMail, and it manages to push mail to other clients on my non-Windows devices just fine.