As Mailplane monitors all Gmail accounts, unread message counters and message subjects are displayed for each account. Mailplane can play a user defined sound, as well as show the number of unread messages in the application icon, account drawer and status menu item. And with automatic photo optimization, image attachments can be converted and resized to make the message even smaller. You can Drag and Drop files and images on the dock application icon, or any Mailplane window to create and upload attachments. The integrated screenshot tool lets you capture and attach a window, screen or region. Downloads can be directly imported into iPhoto as well.
#Mailplane vs. airmail full#
With full iLife integration, you can also browse and attach files from your iPhoto and iTunes libraries too. Mailplane supports multiple Gmail and Google Apps accounts the app allows you to easily switch between accounts without the need to sign in/sign out from the Gmail accounts. And since Mailplane doesn't change the way Gmail works, its unique features can still be enjoyed, including conversations, labels, global access, endless storage, spam protection, and the ever fast and powerful Google search.
#Mailplane vs. airmail mac#
It fully integrates the Gmail web interface into the Mac experience, offering you the best of both worlds. If anyone knows of another exchange capable MUA that can do automated actions and has single character keystrokes, I’d be interested to hear about it.Acting as a site specific web browser for Google's Gmail, Mailplane is a full fledged Mail client for the Desktop. Nothing else can come close to managing the volume of email I deal with or of displaying the info I need to see from the email, (like headers). Most of the other options I’ve seen listed in this thread are IMAP/SMTP only and for that, Thunderbird is, by far, the biggest winner there. And they don’t have single keystroke commands, though they do have actions, and they’re the old Apple Mail style display. But they’ve recently given me the finger by switching to subscription. I’ve been a purchaser of Airmail for years, one of those, “I’ll buy you now in hopes that you’ll develop into a useful tool”.
But the lack of actions is still a killer here. I admit that’s a major nuisance with a dozen devices and a few dozen email accounts. Spark does cache all of your config, including your accounts, so that Spark running elsewhere, like other macs, other ios, etc, only need one login and they’re configured. Without actions, Spark is still just a toy, IMO. The two together give me most of what I want though I really miss the ease of Thunderbird. I’m finding it a useful adjunct with Apple Mail. But it has no actions whatsoever and no way to sort on arbitrary headers. And it can remap command keys so it can do single keystroke commands for common items. Spark does exchange and it’s display is more akin to Mail but not so bad. The iOS version is similar, which is perhaps a win, though I’ll probably never read my work email on a personal device. There doesn’t seem to be a fix for either one.
#Mailplane vs. airmail windows#
(It runs on windows too, but I’ll never use windows, so…)Īpple Mail does exchange and has actions so I can automatically file mailing lists away, but a) it uses a lot of screen real estate to show me junk that takes me a longer time to visually sort through and b) it requires multi-hand chording for common actions like “Archive”. Note that thunderbird also runs on linux, which is a win. When the contracts for the airmail routes from Detroit to Cleveland and Chicago were advertised, the Ford Company, which was already flying to those. Thunderbird, with Exquilla ($10/year), can do it, but it seems to authenticate oddly. New job uses exchange, no access to imap so I’ve been making a round of email clients that can do exchange.
I’m a long time Thunderbird user having only grudgingly moved over from emacs rmail decades ago when it became too difficult to manage all the mime mail I was receiving.