Outlook for Mac 2019 is pretty stable and does all that quite well. For Gmail, I mostly use Mailplane (https://mailplaneapp.com) which I have used forever and it has been pretty solid for me always.
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Outlook for Mac 2019 is pretty stable and does all that quite well. For Gmail, I mostly use Mailplane (https://mailplaneapp.com) which I have used forever and it has been pretty solid for me always.
Well, I'm sold on it. It lets me use all my aliases and their respective email signatures, tags work properly, when I delete the email doesn't come back a few minutes later, it doesn't try to reply with the wrong account, and it doesn't add a bunch of tags I don't want and try to force me to use them. I have nothing else that works this seamlessly, and it's fast. Bring on the iOS version!
We've been working on a solution for a couple of years; it's in beta on iPhone and our Mac, iPad and Web versions are in alpha. Not trying to advertise, just saying you might want to check it out if you're into trying new stuff. Also uses the Google API rather than IMAP. http://floware.com
You're correct that Gmail doesn't use folders, it uses tags. The native Mac mail app doesn't use tags, it uses folders. So when an email has five gmail tags, Mail stores five copies of the email - one in each folder that it's created for the tag. Which is why using Mail for a Gmail account is a nightmare.
One account isn’t controlled by me it’s a franchise thing. The other is under my control...
I've got 6 email accounts (that I use daily) and all are hosted by GMail so trying this was a no-brainer.
In the last month or so I've found that even though I'm mark as read emails on my Mac Mail app they still appear as un-read on my iPhone & iPad. Really annoying.
This seems to fix that problem and provides more, gmail, specific features.
I hate that I'm google b$tch when it comes to email (I do like their spam filtering).
Sold on this product...
In the last month or so I've found that even though I'm mark as read emails on my Mac Mail app they still appear as un-read on my iPhone & iPad. Really annoying.
This seems to fix that problem and provides more, gmail, specific features.
I hate that I'm google b$tch when it comes to email (I do like their spam filtering).
Sold on this product...
It’d be great if it could support other services. I love Apple Mail, but since Catalina emails have been disappearing out of nowhere - not in the spam or trash, literally vanishing. After losing an important email, I had to switch to another app.
This app sounds like a lightweight and good app that looks exactly like Mail.
This app sounds like a lightweight and good app that looks exactly like Mail.
I loved Eudora, back in the day. It's now Mozilla Thunderbird, and I haven't heard anyone mention it in a long long time. Hmm...
Really? Can you give examples?
Just curious, because I use Gmail, and Google Sheets + Docs all day long (all via their Chrome web apps), and find them excellent. I mean, there could definitely be improvements, but they are all good enough for my needs (I'm not trying to do any crazy complex spreadsheets or documents), and extremely useful.
So I'm curious if those are the apps you refer to as a dumpster fire, or something else? And either way, why?
I use both gmail (for gmail) and Mail (for my icloud account). They are not similar at all. What I wish someone would write is a gmail-like interface for my icloud account. I would love to abandon gmail because I prefer Apple's privacy to Google's lack of it.
Free and Open Source, as unintuitive as it sounds, is actually a highly profitable business model.
The typical model is to make the entire software entirely free, but offer paid high level support, which businesses will often take up, and gives businesses a fast track to any issues and bugs, and also feature requests. The wonderful thing about this from both the users' and the developer's point of view, is that typical users get to use it for free, and thus they use it and recommend it, and thus if the software is good, it's usage grows like wildfire, which leads to a lot of paid business for the developer.
The other, highly profitable, side effect of all the above, is that the developer gains worldwide fame amongst the dev community, and it makes them exceedingly employable, and able to command huge salaries and contract rates.
This model is so hugely successful in certain sections of software development, that it really surprises me that it isn't the standard model for most software.
It's hip to bash Google without giving a reason
"Lack of it" is a bit simplified. Google isnt selling your emails to some black market online. They are using computers to scan your emails for key words to create marketing profile data which is anonymized and sold to advertisers.
No one is physically reading your gmail or doing anything with it. It's still as private as email can be. Whether you agree with AI skimming it is a different topic.
No good for people with their own domains and real E-mail accounts. Oh well.
The Mail team at Apple isn’t the sharpest bunch. Hopefully this guy’s an outlier.
The Mail team at Apple isn’t the sharpest bunch. Hopefully this guy’s an outlier.
I wouldn’t assume that “paid app” is referring to a one time purchase or an ongoing subscription. All it implies is that you’ll have to pay to use the app and it won’t be free. Not whether you pay once or ongoing.
The FAQ on the developers website also doesn’t really suggest one way or another as far as payment model.
Being that every thing is supposed to happen locally without an intermedia server, I’d hope it’s a one time payment, but won’t hold my breath either.
Nice, fits in very well!
But yeah I have my own domain too. You can sort of use it with the personal gmail but it sends that "on behalf of" header so I'm not all that keen. Not that I email very often, but the odd occasion I do I'd want it to look professional.
Used to have G Suite until they started with certain things like preventing you leaving play store reviews or accessing certain things with Google Assistant on G Suite accounts and had to rebuild with a new account and re-buy a bunch of apps etc.
Quite liking Zoho Mail myself. Small annual fee, but far from breaks the bank.
But yeah I have my own domain too. You can sort of use it with the personal gmail but it sends that "on behalf of" header so I'm not all that keen. Not that I email very often, but the odd occasion I do I'd want it to look professional.
Used to have G Suite until they started with certain things like preventing you leaving play store reviews or accessing certain things with Google Assistant on G Suite accounts and had to rebuild with a new account and re-buy a bunch of apps etc.
Quite liking Zoho Mail myself. Small annual fee, but far from breaks the bank.
aapl should improve its own mail app and keep it free
however if this separate app kills - i might spend the coin
however if this separate app kills - i might spend the coin
Or you can have a better look and feel on macOS compared to Windows, which is also a consistent thing
Yeah that's identical to mail, I would buy it if it has rules integration with notifications.
iPhone version would be perfect, I don't trust google apps (yet still use gmail #faceplam)
iPhone version would be perfect, I don't trust google apps (yet still use gmail #faceplam)
Exactly, and this is what I love about it so far -- looks like an actual part of MacOS.
I thought the same thing. I'm playing around with it now and while it does look/feel a lot like Mail, the handling and display of labels seems to respect the colors you pick in Gmail. Also, the swipe options seem more specifically optimised for Gmail. All this admittedly is pretty small stuff though. Like you, I use accounts from a couple different providers (iCloud, Gmail) unified under Mail so I'm likely going back to Mail. But it's really nice to see Mac software this good still being made.
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Seriously. The YouTube app is by far the worst thing installed on my Apple TV -- even worse somehow than Hulu.
Maybe you're using the wrong ones.
By "the wrong ones" I guess you mean the ones Google produces?