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> Mimestream differs from other email clients because it uses the Gmail API rather than IMAP Technically speaking that make Mimestream not an email-client, but
by josteink 6y ago
> Mimestream differs from other email clients because it uses the Gmail API rather than IMAP
Technically speaking that make Mimestream not an email-client, but only a Gmail-client.
It's only an email-client if it works with general email-providers, which this one clearly doesn't.
- SpelingBeeChamp 6y agoI think that's more than just a technical point. If someone sold me an email client that only supported one provider, I'd feel swindled. I would encourage them to reconsider their "email client" language. It's asking for a headache.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoLet's not go overboard, you two. Their title on HN and website is "A native macOS email client for Gmail," and that's exactly what it is, especially if you were trying to be technical. It's like bickering that it's not a native client, it's a macOS client, because it only runs on macOS. Or that you'd feel swindled if it didn't run on Gentoo because anything that calls itself "software" when it's really "Macware" is basically false advertising. It's an odd attempt at pedantry.
- josteink 6y ago> Their title on HN and website is "A native macOS email client for Gmail," and that's exactly what it is, especially if you were trying to be technical. "Email client" used to mean something before everyone started assuming Email = Gmail. Imagine someone submitting a link posted as "A web-browser for facebook.com". Nobody here would ever accept that a piece of software which could only work on facebook.com to be an actual web-browser. So why should we allow for the same exception when it comes to email?