Labels were a pretty simple yet novel concept for categorizing mail which i seldom see in any other provider, sadly.
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Incidentally the same labels make Gmail fundamentally incompatible with the way IMAP works causing lots of weirdness whenever you use any standard email client not specifically designed for Gmail.
Yup, it's now the #1 feature I want w/ my current service: Tuta.
I currently filter into folders, which works, but it makes the UX a bit clunky. I hope they add it soon (or maybe I'll try my hand at it since it's FOSS).
Fastmail has them, they’re better than gmails and they import cleanly once you migrate away from gmail.
My free Bluebottle account had tags, which are basically labels, but that was like 100 years ago.
Eudora! I had forgotten all about that one.
Isn't the linked article just a puff piece that says nothing substantial at all?
I’m still using gmail, but reading it trough the same old school local clients downloading everything trough imap. For everything important i have tutanota and private servers. Proton indeed looks like honeypot to me.
Proton indeed looks like honeypot to me.
What makes you think that?
Genuinely asking, since I literally signed up for their paid email service earlier in the week.