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Ask HN: now that Mavericks broke gmail support, what will you use?
Mail.app does not play well with gmail. Sparrow was bought by Google (and therefore has uncertain future on OS X. Inky seems nice, but it's terribly slow and is a resource monster. So what do you use for your email?
- benologist 13y agoI'm using outlook.com + mail.app to spread things out. One side benefit is you can still get fullname@outlook.com lol.
- ghuntley 13y agoHave migrated over to Outlook.com as well and can confirm that the user interface is quite refreshing when compared to the deteriorating state that is gmail. Be aware that Outlook.com is not 365 and there is unfortunately no paid or premium support option, however entire domains are supported via going to domains.live.com. Perfect for family emails/domains, etc. After migrating I authored a plugin for Google Chrome that makes Outlook.com your default email application and provides a button to compose a message to quickly share a link via email. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-from-outlookcom-by-g/jgjbncjbianlocbolfhpanbbpaobldod?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/send-from-outlookc... if your using Chrome + Outlook.com check it out.
- robmil 13y agoI'm using MailMate[1], which is a brilliant client developed by the Danish coder Benny Kjaer Nielsen. It has too many neat features to name, but the one I absolutely couldn't live without is the ability to write emails in Markdown. [1]: http://freron.com/ http://freron.com/
- koralatov 13y agoI use mutt[1] for all of my e-mail. It's a bit of a bear to set up intially, but really worth it. There are lots of guides online that ease the pain of setting it up. [1]: http://www.mutt.org/ http://www.mutt.org/
- tigroferoce 13y agoI think I could switch to mutt either :-). I've read that gmail IMAP support is a little broken. Are you having problems with mutt?
- bobthedino 13y agoWhy not just wait and see if Apple manages to fix Mail.app? http://www.macrumors.com/2013/11/04/apple-preparing-bug-fix-updates-to-mail-ibooks-safari-and-remote-desktop/ http://www.macrumors.com/2013/11/04/apple-preparing-bug-fix-...
- tigroferoce 13y agoI need email for work. If I cannot be sure about my mail client I must change client. However, Mail.app never satisfied me 100%, so I took the opportunity to scout for better clients.
- thetron 13y agoI started using Airmail[1], and I love it. Mainly for label support with Gmail, but there's lots of little bits of UI features that I love about. Definitely worth the $1.99 or whatever it is on the App Store. [1]: http://airmailapp.com/ http://airmailapp.com/
- tigroferoce 13y agoI've seen it, but I read that it's very bugged. Did you experienced any problem?
- hashtree 13y agoNone here, thus far. Best mail client I've ever used.
- tigroferoce 13y agoGood to know. 2$ is definitely worth. Pity there is not a trial version on the app store. BTW, is it good to keep zero inbox? I'm so desperate that I was thinking about writing my own zero inbox-oriented client ...
- adam-_- 13y agoWhat's wrong with gmail.com?
- tigroferoce 13y agoI don't like the interface. I find it too clumsy with features I don't use. Said this, at the moment I'm using it :-(. I used Gmelius to get rid of most of the interface and it is usable. However I'd like a better integration with the operating system.