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I tried switching to Gmail for Android and noped out immediately
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It's actually better on iOS, like every other Google app, which should embarrass them. But forget the app, GMail in general is fundamentally broken and hasn't improved in any way that I can ever recall.
But yeah, just off the top of my head:
How is any of this acceptable from the most prolific email platform on the planet!?
My company insists on sending all communications through email, and also insists on using Gmail, which means shit just gets buried and impossible to find all the damn time.
I cannot reproduce any of these, though I haven't tried to block any senders.
I've never seen messages not show up in a search or in all mail. It doesn't search spam or trash by default, but you can override that by adding e.g. "in:trash" if for some reason you needed to include those. It shows me the sender email address just fine when I tap on the header. It also marks a message as read immediately on opening it. I don't see an option to change this on Android, maybe it's a per-account setting you can change from desktop.
Oh well if you've never noticed it must be a figment of my imagination...?
Yes that's the problem.
Once again, yes, that's the problem. Most people are not going to do that.
when was the last time you used it on Android, and was it on a modern device? about half of those don't really apply/happen to me
1: yeah search sucks sometimes, wish they'd fix it.
2: you can block people, you just have to select the lower ... icon
3: it says 'primary mail' for me, but it is kinda annoying sometimes
4: are you talking about how it shortens 'Steam@steampowered.com' to just 'Steam'? because on a phone there isn't much horizontal room and they have a verified system for businesses but I can kinda see what you mean
5: It marked read nearly instantly for me. If it can load the text then it'll mark as read which only takes like half a second for me.
Literally several times/day, every day?
Pixel 7
No you can't. Much like "all mail" it simply doesn't do what it says. As I said, it just moves them into the spam folder.
In your own screenshot it just says "Discord". There is no email address to be found. This makes it stupidly easy to dupe vulnerable people. You can enter any name in that field and any photo in your profile, making it stupidly easy to impersonate, for instance, PayPal or USPS, which I get all the time.
Terrifying that any company would use Gmail.
Hell, MS is a better email host.
It’s shocking that anyone would use MS, they have a pretty terrible security record. https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/CSRB_Review_of_the_Summer_2023_MEO_Intrusion_Final_508c.pdf
Basically they used the same encryption key for every tenant and thought that rotating the key was too hard, so they stopped.