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I have a friend who is a UX guru, and as a sort of hobby tries out various email clients from time to time. He absolutely couldn't believe it when I showed him
by Eric_WVGG 5y ago
I have a friend who is a UX guru, and as a sort of hobby tries out various email clients from time to time. He absolutely couldn't believe it when I showed him "this great new client [Mimestream] that has made my email dreams come true."
"It looks… just like Apple Mail."
"Yes"
"… why?"
- selectodude 5y agoSeriously though, what is the difference?
- kitsunesoba 5y agoI haven’t used Mimestream, but I think the idea is that it’s built to use Gmail’s native API, which is more functional and well-behaved than Gmail’s IMAP implementation. This allows it to function similarly to the Gmail web app while also being a good citizen of the Mac desktop and being much more lightweight.
- ohCh6zos 5y agoI was a religious user of Airmail until it went subscription, Mimestream seems almost as good. It feels incredibly lightweight, it uses almost no RAM, and it has that 'cool' mac app polish.
- Eric_WVGG 5y agoExactly. A lot of the unexpected odd integrations of Gmail and an IMAP email client disappear, most notably including Search, which has never seemed to work quite right in Apple Mail w/ Google services. I should of course just bail on Google, especially since they're discontinuing my previous freebie G-Suite account, but, well, you know.