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13 Jan 2019, 02:46 AM | #1 |
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Android/iOS apps - offline access
I'm disappointed to see that the updates to the apps are, from a user perspective, primarily cosmetic. Perhaps this isn't important to everyone, but not having offline access to a cached collection of emails is a significant limitation. I travel a lot for business - which means long hours spent on planes - and I otherwise often do not have internet access (for example when I am inside buildings or underground). My emails are therefore, at least when I am using the FastMail apps, inaccessible.
The lack of this feature means that people are potentially being pushed towards potentially dubious third-party apps. While I think that the third-party email app that I have come to rely on is fine, I would prefer to be able to access my email from within the FastMail ecosystem - that's the ecosystem that I trust. I see a lot of email users on Android (where the native email apps are often dire) extolling the virtues of many email apps which I would never use - mail.ru being one - or apps which, while probably safe enough for a casual user, store emails on their own servers prior to delivering them to the user's phone. I would have expected that FastMail users, especially business users, would not have to rely on a potentially risky third-party app when FastMail makes a feature of having its own apps. It's a shame as FastMail is otherwise excellent. Last edited by hitoriangasu : 13 Jan 2019 at 02:52 AM. |
13 Jan 2019, 06:58 AM | #2 |
The "e" in e-mail
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They are working on it since 2015: http://www.emaildiscussions.com/show...28&postcount=5
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14 Jan 2019, 08:57 AM | #3 |
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We really need some EMD FAQs! This topic keeps coming up.
There is a built-in IMAP/EAS email program in Android (gmail) and iOS. I can't remember how configurable IMAP folder sync is on Android. I use EAS with outlook.com and folders can be selected. It's all documented by fastmail. |
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14 Feb 2023, 09:56 PM | #5 |
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I suspect FairEmail would be ideal for what you want to do. Has just about every option you could imagine. https://email.faircode.eu/
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