I have used Outlook for Mobile until now. But I have set up a new domain and I can’t add my account to Outlook - there is a years’ old bug that won’t let you add an IMAP account unless it has a weak password (i.e. no special characters). I’m not going to weaken the security on my IMAP account just for Microsoft’s poor programming.
What is a good alternative email app (no, I won’t use GMail!)?
I just setup my own domain/email again and gone back to an old favourite app of mine - Nine email.
Pricey but has a free trial with full functionality. Secure as the app connects directly to your email provider, which sounds silly but many apps now save your account details to a seperate server to manage the syncing connection.
I tried loads of email clients with using my own domain name and most of them didn’t work with this set up.
Blue mail was the client I eventually settled with which worked well, then a couple of years ago I switched to Gmail and now route my email there now and haven’t looked back. I don’t think it’s a great email client but I don’t send many emails from my phone and is working well enough for me.
Nine was brilliant, whereas Outlook just said the server was timing out (less than 1 second of trying), Nine just connected and set up the account automatically. Very impressive.
I also like that Nine includes everything, like Outlook - contacts, appointments, todos etc.
Yes, I used to use Nine on Android years ago before Microsoft bought Accompli and reworked it to become Outlook Mobile. Worked very well with an Exchange server, but I never tried it with any other type of accounts.
Just setting it up, Nine is more comfortable than Spark. Nine pulled in all the necessary server information automatically, Spark tried, but failed. I had to enter everything manually.
But it looks okay, once it is set-up.
I’ll run both side-by-side for a few days and see, which I prefer.
I didn’t have problems with Spark. My domain is connected to a Microsoft 365 Business Standard account though so it is an Exchange account - just used the Microsoft OAuth sign in. Same with Outlook.com and Gmail’s one. I had to create an application password for iCloud email though, not that I ever use that.
I have my own domain with email hosting. I use POP3 to allow me to archive email on my Windows machine, while reading it anywhere. Spam is a problem. Outlook and Thunderbird clients do an acceptable job of filtering spam, however I have had no luck finding an Android client that filters spam. Any clients that filter spam on Android, using POP3?
My mail providers provide spam protection, generally. There are also many third party services that will do it for you. Much better than relying on a single end-device to do it for you. Also, it doesn’t affect your bandwidth, the spam is removed, before it gets to your mailbox.
I used my mail hosting provider’s spam filtering, but turned it off after missing quite a few important emails due to them getting blocked. The alternative was for me to log on to their web mail every few hours and check the spam folder. Not something I cared to do.
So now, all the mail comes to my clients and I need filter capability there. Thunderbird does a good job on Linux, as does Outlook on Windows. If I can find a good filtering client on Android, I’d be happy. I currently use the gmail client, but it does not seem to offer spam filtering in pop3 mode.