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It is remarkably similar to the native email application. However, so was the iPhone one. Just had a few much needed upgrades like the hovering menu bar.

Oh, and did I mention the threading? I could probably never switch from Gmail simply because of the threading.

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This is deeply mysterious to me. My email client (Forte Agent) has done email threading for about 15 years. It's much better than Gmail's web interface for email lists in particular, because it can make them look like newsgroups. You can watch threads, ignore threads (and subsequent replies), etc.

Do other folks' desktop clients not do this?

I've never seen a mail reader other than gmail that will thread sent mail or mail from other "folders" from your inbox.

Postbox does this.

Interesting, thank you :)

Outlook will do it to some extent. You can group your messages by conversation. I don't recall what annoyed me about it, but it wasn't ideal... I think it had something to do with the sorting.

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