The Least Painful Mail Option

I wish there was a way to give 4.5 stars, because I feel like Airmail falls just short of 5. There are flaws, no question: documentation is sparse (and the authors are in Italy, so English is not their first language in FAQs), and while Airmail is incredibly powerful, it can be quite tricky to find the feature you want. It is not always intuitive at first glance. They are working on putting together proper documentation, but it’s an ongoing process.

However.

Everything I have needed a mail client to do, there has either been a way to do it, or the authors have been responsive to feature requests and added that feature. Airmail’s under continuous development (albeit staggered; with only a couple devs, they tend to focus on iOS and put out a release, then focus on desktop, then iOS, etc.) and the authors are very attentive to their beta testers and user community. If there is a feature you need and you can describe it well despite the language barrier, chances are they’ll be willing to put that feature in for you.

For the first time in ages, I have a client on my iPhone, iPad, and desktop machine that acts the same way on every platform and gives me the same functionality on each. My mail is my mail is my mail; no matter where I open the client, I will see the same view of my email reality. That fact alone has saved my sanity more than I can count.

So for all the places Airmail could still be tweaked or improved (to wit: documentation!), this is still by far the least-horrible mail client I’ve yet used on any platform, and you can take it from me when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

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