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Edison Mail Updated With Native Support for Apple Silicon Macs
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itʻs free, but they have a paid version. i used it for a long time...like how it looks/acts. but they had their data security stuff last year that put me off. now theyʻre really upfront about what is being traced/tracked and you can opt out of most of it. if you donʻt use their deliveries and shopping functions, they take far less data from you than most other 3rd party email clients.
i use Mail for almost everything but work now, but i might tive Email another go...
i use Mail for almost everything but work now, but i might tive Email another go...
Nice email client but dark mode needs to have an alternate option for the actual emails and the section surrounding them being displayed on a white background. The left hand side can stay dark. Looks like a GOOD app though (though I'll stick to Airmail).
Also, when expanding the email account to view inbox/sent/spam/deleted, the other accounts should have their own lists collapse automatically.
Also, when expanding the email account to view inbox/sent/spam/deleted, the other accounts should have their own lists collapse automatically.
Yup! It's in the settings.
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An aside: a feature I'd love to see Mail.app adopt is the ability to group messages by sender (similar to a Messages view). I used to use an email app called Unibox that did this; it was great and made inbox management far easier, but its file/folder management leaved something to be desired. So when my inbox got very very full, I'd launch Unibox, do a review & cleanup, and then quit Unibox and launch mail to do filing (via shortcuts from SmallCubed Mail Suite) and response. [Added: Unibox is long since abandonwear]
I can kind of do the same thing via search and/or smart folders, but Unibox made it a really simple experience. I've always wanted Mail to adopt that "group by sender" (with an appearance overhaul) to match it.
I can kind of do the same thing via search and/or smart folders, but Unibox made it a really simple experience. I've always wanted Mail to adopt that "group by sender" (with an appearance overhaul) to match it.
There's a known bug with Gmail that makes Apple Mail pops up randomly even if the Mail app is completely closed.
Battery life might be a concern too- you’d think Apple Mail on MacOS and iOS would be as optimized in this regard as possible.
Not that I’ve run any tests.
Not that I’ve run any tests.
Very droll! But, if you have many thousands of emails that you want to search, a fast email client and/or computer can help.
Shout out for my many many years on Thunderbird. Not the prettiest thing in the world, but works for my mix of a dozen or so email addresses of every flavor under the sun.
I use it as well. And, their bridge software is pretty awesome too...so, you can use any client you want in addition to their web-based product.
Agreed. I always hear complaints about Apple Mail but it works great for me and always has.
There are a bunch of apps that basically serve as wrappers for the Gmail web interface while supporting some app-ish features like push notifications and dock icon badges. Wavebox and Flotato are two examples. The problem with going from the Gmail web interface to a regular program like Mail is that most email programs (outside of Googles own Gmail apps for iOS and iPad) don't support Gmail's categories, which I personally am quite fond of. There are ways to set up rules to apply labels in Gmail to align with the specific Gmail categories, but it's cumbersome to set up and it'll mess up the sorting in the Gmail app on mobile. If you get a lot of junk mail that would be automatically sorted into the Promotions category that doesn't trigger a notification or unread count badge then Mail would drive you nuts.
MimeStream is a great native Gmail client that uses the Gmail API instead of IMAP to support all of Gmail‘s extra features. Originally installed it to reduce RAM use since the web app is a pig, but very happy with it.
Open Activity Monitor on an M1 Mac. Click to sort the list on the "Kind" column. Note the entries listed as "Intel".
Those are the companies that don't care about their own product.
It's embarrassing to have taken almost 2 years to update an application to Apple Silicon native. If a company really loved their own product it would be hard to hold them back from updating it to the latest technologies-- and the fact that Apple made it so easy leaves little excuse for something as basic as an email client...
Those are the companies that don't care about their own product.
It's embarrassing to have taken almost 2 years to update an application to Apple Silicon native. If a company really loved their own product it would be hard to hold them back from updating it to the latest technologies-- and the fact that Apple made it so easy leaves little excuse for something as basic as an email client...
That looks great! I went the route of setting up rules to use categories with the Mail app but I'm happy someone decided to make a desktop client with categories support.
A question, not a snipe at anyone...
If you use ProtonMail or other secure packages, doesn't it become useless when you send or respond email to Gmail users?
Or, do you restrict yourself to only responding to users of the same package?
Once in a while I'm trying to switch to something else but I'm always going back to Unibox.
I try that approach with all Apple apps: Mail, Notes, Calendar, Reminders... if they can do what I need then I don't bother looking elsewhere.
The only plugin available that offers this (that actually works on pretty much all the latest macOS versions is MailSuite (specifically the "Mail Act-On" portion of the plugin) It's $80 for the initial purchase, with an optional $45 per year "update" subscription.
Mail Act-On used to be a stand-alone product, and it worked extremely well. But they folded all their plugins into one big suite and started charging more for it. I don't understand why nobody has offered this "Mark As Read Delay" function in a small/cheap plugin since then, as everyone I know hates this lack of feature in the Mac's email app.
MailSuite is fantastic software, but unless you're going to use virtually every feature it offers, $80 is a steep price to pay just to have a mark as read delay. And though the yearly updates feature is optional, you're forced to pay it because every time Apple updates Mail.app, the plugins stop working.
I use MailMate. 300k emails in my mailboxes. 35k in my inboxes. MailMate is best-in-class (IMHO) for its searching capabilities.
For free? No IAP? Seriously, what is their business model? What's the catch? I'm thinking this might literally be spyware.
EDIT:
So yes, this is definitely spyware, as mentioned by several posters, referring to the VICE-article. Edison mail scrape users inbox and sell the data. Just horrible, but not unexpected - it's a completely free mail app. Should have been obvious.
Shame on Macrumors for promoting this spyware!!
EDIT:
So yes, this is definitely spyware, as mentioned by several posters, referring to the VICE-article. Edison mail scrape users inbox and sell the data. Just horrible, but not unexpected - it's a completely free mail app. Should have been obvious.
Shame on Macrumors for promoting this spyware!!
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Damn it Jim, I’m an email client, not an alarm clock. Just what is a snooze function when it comes to email?