I can understand that frustration that webmail clients are currently very vendor specific. Though I'm also an old school user that switches among Outlook (Desktop [New], Mobile), Apple's Mail app, Thunderbird, and a few other clients based on several whims/current preferences. Migadu supports IMAP very well and I don't feel tied to a specific client and webmail is a "nice-to-have" for some edge cases, never my main client.
Off the top of my head, Outlook and Thunderbird both support snooze/delay/schedule-send in various ways. I don't know about "snooze received emails". (I was never an Inbox user.) (Outlook has Flagging for Follow-Up and you can set your own deadline?)
There's a lot more IMAP clients than just the ones I bounce among, too.
It used to be IMAP clients were where all the innovation was in email clients. It is a bit unfortunate Gmail changed the dynamic so much that people today think webmail clients should be the client-side innovators.
Well the problem is IMAP is a protocol and takes longer to change. I doubt IMAP has anything related to snoozing emails, isn't that the case?
I will try a few. My concern is having a shared space for contacts too (google has been my go-to area for contacts), since I need to use it for the phone.
I need a client for android and one for desktop, or a web client that works for both (but should support offline on mobile!)
It's not necessarily a feature that needs to be embedded in the protocol. There's lots of innovation clients (and servers) can do independently even with a shared protocol.
That said, I'm still curious if JMAP might ever get much traction outside of Fastmail and a few others. They make a good point that having an HTTP-capable and JSON speaking protocol opens up potential webmail client innovation in good ways. But I don't expect we'll see a much faster adoption curve than the currently slow trickle.
Agreed! And yes, JSON and http would simplify a lot of things.
I was considering writing my own email client for a while, but instead I pivoted to my own budgeting app for now. Will get to the email client if I ever have time, lol
Off the top of my head, Outlook and Thunderbird both support snooze/delay/schedule-send in various ways. I don't know about "snooze received emails". (I was never an Inbox user.) (Outlook has Flagging for Follow-Up and you can set your own deadline?)
There's a lot more IMAP clients than just the ones I bounce among, too.
It used to be IMAP clients were where all the innovation was in email clients. It is a bit unfortunate Gmail changed the dynamic so much that people today think webmail clients should be the client-side innovators.