My requirements are simple:
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I am able to search past emails and view them.
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Able to “Mark as read” from the notification popup.
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No ads
My experiences are mixed:
Fairmail, Aquamail (when it was good) , K9, Thunderbird and similar apps **satisfied ** 2) and 3). However, they all failed at 1). The searches either return nothing or take a long time to load. So I have to swap to a browser , go to Gmail then search from there.
Outlook sucks at 3). Sometimes it gives me random ads within my inbox. It does 2) very well. For 1), it can retrieve the searches better than the group above , but not reliable.
The Gmail app excels at 1), it fails at 2) and 3). The ads within the app are not that terrible, but stil very annoying. It’s been years and we still couldnt “Mark as read” from the notification. Surprisingly, Gmail works for 1) all the time.
Which one do you use?
What ads are you seeing in Gmail besides your own emails that probably contain some sort of spam? 🤨
Social and Promotional sections have sponsored “emails” aka ads.
This is the official Android app you’re talking about, right? I don’t even see such a category/label. I’m wondering if this is one of those slow-roll outs for new BS they are planning on adding.
Apparently if you dont use inbox categories you won’t see them. So that might be why you haven’t. Personally I like them. The sponsored emails are easy to ignore and not seeing the spam from Linkden, that I only use when job hunting, in the main inbox is nice. Any sites I’ve bought from that sends sale emails gets shunted into Promotional so they dont clog my inbox either.
FWIW, Linkedin has reasonably extensive notification settings with toggles for both email and push. I get almost no emails from them except when I accidentally turn on alerts from a new job search.
I turned those off the moment they appeared in my gmail account. Don’t understand why others still use them.