It's already been said but I'll say it again, the UI looks just like the default Mail app provided by Apple. Is there a lawsuit coming from Apple for some reason despite the apps being free?
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Former Apple Engineer Introduces Native Gmail Client for Mac With Multi-Account Support, System Notifications, and More
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What law is he breaking? Who would sue for what?
Also, Apple's Mail app is quite good when dealing with standard, rather than proprietary mail protocols.
The native mail client has given me lots of trouble over the last year or so. Deleted emails, signed out of gmail, not handling my 60.000+ mails well.
But also I like to separate my not-work mail (a gmail account) from my work mail (a not-gmail-account).
Less distraction while working is a bonus for me. So two mail clients can be a good thing for some.
I agree. But I'll give it a try anyway because there's one reason I switch between my native Mail client and Google's web client: search. I find old emails I'm looking for much more quickly using Google than the native mail apps's interface. So if searching is part of Google's mail API, maybe this will give me the nice clean UI of the native Mail app combined with the good search capability of Google's web interface.
I think the iOS Gmail and Google Calendar apps have come a long away, and are arguably better than Apple's.
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Not sure about your experience, but iOS 13 Mail (and some functionality on Catalina as well) broke fundamental functionality that forced me to use Google's Gmail app. I didn't want to leave the Apple ecosystem of using Apple Mail, but after a year of issues, felt I didn't have a choice. I'm glad this new app exists because there is no Google Mail app for Mac OS, and this one seems to be working decently well thus far despite being only a beta. I agree that if you have other email accounts that aren't on Google, perhaps this isn't the solution for you, but I don't fall into that bucket.
I'd be careful assuming that he was sole responsible for the state of Mail. Although he was the Engineering Manager for that, in large organizations (and even much smaller ones) there can be forces at play around you that limit your ability to ship great product.
It could also be that he left because he felt he couldn't do a great app and saw an opportunity to do it outside of Apple.
It is not a big deal nowadays, as you can start using any other email service and automatically forward your incoming Yahoo mail over there. After a while, people will naturally switch over, no need to even tell anyone specifically. I started with Hotmail, then switched to Yahoo, now using Gmail and will switch again if anything better comes along. 😉
MAILPLANE (https://mailplaneapp.com/) used to be my preferred desktop app for Gmail. Like a heavily skinned site specific browser. Haven’t used it in a while (no longer much of a Gmail user), so YMMV.
Five minutes in and I can already see it is much better with labels, and emails with multiple labels, than native Mail app ever has been. This for me is the key Gmail differentiator - being able to have the same email in multiple places - so a receipts can be in Orders & Work Expenses & Inbox & Starred until I'm done with it, unstar it and archive it: then it is just left with the first two labels.
Mimestream is showing me the labels attached to a message very nicely so far.
We'll see how it goes, but the app is super lightweight (5.1 MB DMG!), was easy to setup with 5 accounts and so far so good.
Mimestream is showing me the labels attached to a message very nicely so far.
We'll see how it goes, but the app is super lightweight (5.1 MB DMG!), was easy to setup with 5 accounts and so far so good.
So far this app works really well. It feels very much like you're just using Gmail but better. I deleted an email on my phone using the iOS default Mail app and I saw the email delete within after 1-2 seconds in Mimestream on my Mac. Very smooth.
Native client doesn't also support folders on Gmail. And for multiple accounts which are setup on gmail.com it has be to be linked manually. This seems to be handling that without much trouble.
Also the most annoying bug, native client just randomly pops up out of the blue when it has connectivity problems.
Not really. Chrome is OK, but the Gmail app always has issues. Notifications hang on it when there are no new e-mails left, if you leave the app and come back, the e-mail it was previously displaying is blank and you have to back out to the inbox to see it again, and they're notoriously slow (on purpose) with updates to offer/support new features. Google does this to make the experience less than stellar. Not to mention that you HAVE to use their app on iOS if you want your e-mails to come in immediately, since they shut down support for push and Exchange integration with the native iOS mail app years ago.Maybe you're using the wrong ones.They work perfectly fine on mine.
glad I ditched gmail long ago. Love both my iCloud and Outlook accounts, push on native mail clients and no data mining.
I still use gmail, but am getting more and more worried about Google and their data practices so thinking of transitioning to iCloud. Will look into it further
Interesting especially if Drive integration and functionality come. I use Spark now and have about 4 gmail accounts I have to keep track of and two drives.
Oh if only these native Gmail features came to Apple Mail for both macOS and iOS! I’ve always wanted this.
Pretty sure I said that too in my initial post; I specifically said "I can't imagine what usefulness that adds" or something like that
Look slick. I assume this should be compatible with paid, custom domain G-Suite mail, I'll check it out.