More recently, Microsoft has added an ad in the Mail app, making the experience overall much worse.īasically, the company recommends Windows 10 users to download the Outlook mobile app for Android and iOS, and it does this with a banner placed in the sidebar of the Mail app. However, as I complained in the past on several occasions, this counter sometimes tells me I have one unread message, but when opening the app, there’s no new email in there. The built-in Windows 10 email client also comes with a badge counter which displays how many unread messages you have in your inbox. Only that it downloads it a few minutes later.
Running the Mail app side by side with Mozilla Thunderbird easily highlights these problems, as Mozilla’s client works flawlessly every time it has to download new emails.įurthermore, manually checking for updates in the Mail app sometimes doesn’t make any difference, as it keeps telling you there’s no new email when, in fact, there is. I used Mail with an Exchange account and I configured it to download emails “as items arrive.” And yet, sometimes they arrive at the right time, while every now and then it fails to check for new messages and ends up downloading emails with a delay of a few minutes. Despite your settings, the app sometimes forgets to check the email, so there’s a chance that you end up receiving messages at a later time. One of the biggest issues with the Mail app is its lack of consistency.
Mail has received a lot of updates in all these years since the debut of Windows 10, but as a heavy user, I still feel that this apps leaves a lot to be desired as far as the comparison with a fully-featured email client goes.Īnd I’m not talking just about its functionality, as Microsoft has already added the basic feature package, but about the everyday experience that you get when using the app. Windows 10 ships with a pre-loaded Mail app whose purpose is to serve as a native email client, technically rendering apps like Mozilla Thunderbird and Outlook pretty much useless.
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