Mac email client. What's your choice?
8 years ago from Dani Sanchez, Senior UX and Product Designer
Hey guys,
Do you have any recommendation for a neat Mac email client that's not Airmail, Unibox or Inky?
Looking forward to hear from y'all.
Cheers.
8 years ago from Dani Sanchez, Senior UX and Product Designer
Hey guys,
Do you have any recommendation for a neat Mac email client that's not Airmail, Unibox or Inky?
Looking forward to hear from y'all.
Cheers.
MailBox !
Does that support Outlook?
Nope
LOL @ this! - Feb 1, 2016
I tried more than 10 popular e-mail clients on Mac, after that i still choose Mail.app
I can't tell why but i just felt it's the best.
It's some kind of comfortable or natural i can't describe.
The reason I have stuck with Mail.app after all these years is because of its support for GPG tools
Gmail running in Chrome. With all the extensions available, it can't be beat.
What about when you have more than one email addresses to manage?
It can handle as many as you're logged in as: http://i.imgur.com/hwgEZkO.png
+1 for Gmail in Chrome.
The short cuts are great, and it's accessible from any browser. It's also really great that it's integrated well across other Google services.
Same here. Tried Mail.app, Thunderbird and even outlook. Turned out that vanilla Gmail in Chrome was the best for both work and personal email accounts.
Airmail 2 on the Mac is a big improvement from v1 and I don't care for Mailbox with their workflow.
IMHO, Airmail 2 is the perfect replacement for Sparrow.
Is it faster? I found v1 quite slow at filtering addresses in the To: field.
Yup it is. I gave up on v1 after a few hrs of use. Airmail 2 is my default email client.
Not sure if they rewrote the whole thing, but it feels like a different app.
Yup, I'm with you George. I've "tried 'em all" and have found myself settling on Airmail 2. Good stuff.
Ok, I'm trying the beta and it's super fast. There goes another $10.
Airmail 2 all the way. I have tried so many different email clients and Airmail 2 is my favourite one so far.
Unibox is pretty nice. Using it for almost a year now. Single-window concept is great and sender-centric UI just makes me love this app.
I love Airmail. It's awesome.
I've tried a bunch, and I always keep coming back to Mail. At the end of the day, I don't need my email app to be a task manager or be social. I just need it to do email, and it does a pretty solid job.
I use Airmail but mine crashes quite often. I'm also looking to switch but e-mail seems to be an area that needs a good solution.
Use Airmail personally. Works great w/Gmail and almost always receives mail faster than Mail app. You have to pay for their regular version, but can use the beta for free:
https://rink.hockeyapp.net/apps/84be85c3331ee1d222fd7f0b59e41b04
Edit: just read the entirety of the first post and realize you aren't interested in Airmail, so nevermind!
I tried AirMail and it's a great product but after a little while I just naturally drifted back to Mail.app
Gmail in chrome tab.
Mailbox got me hooked on the iPhone and now I use the desktop version for all my gmails. I still use the Mail.app for my work email and others...
Apple Mail: because it's the only Exchange client that actually works for Mac.
Apple Mail. Tested all the Alternatives but they are feeling all buggy or slow or have too much UX fails in it.
Sparrow, since 2011.
+1 Mail.app
Still using Gmail on the web (in Chrome, FWIW). I've tried various desktop clients and none of them ever seemed to work that well. Web-based Gmail is familiar, fast, platform-agnostic, and it just works.
Airmail for when I'm just churning through Gmail and Exchange, Inbox (browser) and Outlook (sigh) when I'm actually working.
Still use sparrow
Sparrow, going strong. It does everything I need it to do and doesn't include the shit I don't want it to do.
I love Mailbox on my iPhone, but it's not keyboard friendly. Gmail is, so I just use regular old on-the-web Gmail.
I try a client a few times a year and always come right back.
Still using Sparrow. Will hold on for many moons. I am of the mind that email is not "broken". If you are organized, focused, and practice zero inbox, email is easy and not stressful. Email is awesome.
Even more difficult choice now that I am using Google Inbox for my primary email and regular Google Apps Gmail for my work email.
I'm still hanging on to Sparrow for as long as I can.
I've give AirMail a try and it's ok too.
I really like the simplicity of Sparrow though.
Sadly, Mailbox doesn't work well when you have dozens of labels to manage. I usually create a label for each client I have. That's how I keep track of things.
I've been using Airmail 2 for a while. It's not as polished as Sparrow was, but it's the only client robust enough for my workflow.
Mailplane for a few years now.
Mail.app is too slow and its Gmail integration is still too poor. I use Mailbox currently, but it crashes all the time. It struggles the most with images in emails, which often causes it to crash. Once they work out all of the bugs and implement more mail providers, it will be pretty solid.
I use Mailbox when it's not crashing, but I prefer Alpine (or just pine) since I can get my usenet lists alongside my emails. Thunderbird was ok, but it's really just good for a trip down memory lane at this point.
Anyone use mailmate? would be interested to hear what its like.
Pretty similar to the rest:
Mailbox for Gmail Airmail for Exchange (work).
As soon as Mailbox incorporates Exchange I'll switch over completely. Airmail is nice but Mailbox is the most superior mail Mac App i've used.
I'm using Sparrow but it has halted the development, they're bought by Google (and they made the Inbox, fyi).
Although I don't have any problem with Sparrow, I'm thinking about switching to Mailbox.
Mailbox beta
Mailbox. Once you work out the weird little kinks with workflow its fantastic.
Using (but not enjoying) Mail.app for my work/Exchange-based email, Postbox.app for my private work email.
Mail is very slow most of the time. Postbox is just a nicer looking Thunderbird, but it does the job.
I didn't know Postbox had a Mac version (or, I forgot). Postbox was my client of choice on Windows, and when I got a Mac, I started using Airmail. My license information still works for Postbox, but the UI is out of place on Yosemite.
Bleh.
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