Ask HN: What are you missing in existing email clients?
Folders that display their subfolders content. This problem is very inherently noticeable in Outlook while at work. There are 5 types of problems sent to 1 team distro. I filter these 5 types of problems, based on the Subject field, to a different subfolder of the team distro folder. When I view the team distro folder - I don&#x27;t see any email. I need to click into the individual subfolders. If I create a Search Folder (which will let me see all search results from these 5 folders, effectively being what I want) it needs to be a Top Level folder and cannot, itself, be a Subfolder or reorganized. It will live under the Search Folders menu effectively thwarting my attempts at organization.<p>I would like to only be notified of new email that enters specific folders - rather than just an on&#x2F;off where I am spammed with dozens if not hundreds of desktop notifications I do not care for. This way I don&#x27;t need to keep my email always-visible to see when I get important email.<p>I would like extremely flexible organizational rules, again similar to Outlook.<p>All in a UI that gets out of my way and works well in portrait mode, as the few emails I get tend to be more longform and I like to reduce scrolling. I actually like Mailbird&#x27;s [0] UI because I prefer icons over text labels for a tool I&#x27;m using frequently. Terrible UX (what do all these icons mean?) is something I&#x27;m willing to overcome as a power user. Using email&#x2F;webmail clients reminds me of using IE6 with several toolbars installed to the point where I see more of IE&#x27;s UI than I do the webpage I&#x27;m trying to browse. When I read emails I feel like I see more email client than I do email and that&#x27;s aggravating.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getmailbird.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.getmailbird.com</a>