I've been really enjoying Canary. Good cross platform support for iOS and Mac and its a one time purchase instead of monthly. Add in the security features, snoozing, and smart notifications and its almost at inbox levels.
Ask HN: Best email client for a Mac?
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#32Mail.app
I use it with my personal email (hosted at Hover), and my work email, hosted on some IMAP server.
Works like a charm.
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#33Spark does pretty well for me. Nice inbox features and search functions.
FYI: Spark stores your credentials in their cloud unlike your typical email client which stores them locally.
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/5grsan/do_not_use_...
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#34I’ve been using Boxy (https://boxyapp.co) for inbox for a long time and now they’re on to making Boxy Suite (https://www.boxysuite.com/) which should cover Gmail and Calendar once Inbox is deprecated.
Overall quite happy with them.
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#35mutt in your terminal of choice, to a local Maildir structure synced from your IMAP server, plus your search utility of choice.
Mutt is great if you're not often dealing with images or rich text, and if you love keyboard-based workflows. I was a mutt guy for a while. But I've found apps like MailMate or even GMail's web client to be keyboardy enough, without some of the compromises and pain points (e.g. fighting OfflineIMAP)
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#36What’s wrong with the built-in Mail app btw? I use it in daily basis and it’s pretty good to get its job done.
Not something that is wrong per se, but I moved away from the Mail.app because I switched to Inbox a few years ago because of it's productivity features. The way Inbox handled 'snoozing' mails (mails returing from snooze would appear at the top of the inbox) is not supported by Mail.app (or any other standard mail app for that matter, even Gmail at the time). So I switched to Inbox web app on the desktop as well. I b…
If you are using Gmail/G-Suite I would check out either https://mailplaneapp.com/ or https://www.kiwiforgmail.com/. Both are decent native Mac app wrappers for the Gmail/G-Suite web client.
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#37Postbox is pretty swell.
I used to love Postbox until the latest 6th version.
Sure, they've - allegedly - made it run faster but they've also removed extension support, blocked any ways to hack in a calendar (which could previously be done by adding a permanent browser tab pointing to Google Calendar) and seriously hurt legibility with its new design by removing dividing lines, decreasing contrast across the board and giving all the icons a bright random colour.
A real shame as there are no real alternatives.
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#38I'm partial to Airmail ( http://airmailapp.com/ ), which I use for a mix of Gmail and self-hosted (IMAP) addresses. Works great, lightning-fast to use, and with a very Mac-native feel.
I've liked Airmail, but it has a tendency towards weird bugs (e.g. adding gibberish attachments to email chains in large numbers). Email tools, imho, need to be 'boring', stable, and predictable, and Airmail never has been, any of the times I've tried to use it.
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#39I'm partial to Airmail ( http://airmailapp.com/ ), which I use for a mix of Gmail and self-hosted (IMAP) addresses. Works great, lightning-fast to use, and with a very Mac-native feel.
I have to dissent unfortunately, I find it slow, buggy, unwieldy, and it will frequently do crazy things to HTML formatted emails.
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#40What’s wrong with the built-in Mail app btw? I use it in daily basis and it’s pretty good to get its job done.
It gets quite slow with large mailboxes.
I've got pretty large mailboxes and have never had any problems. I used to be incredibly picky about mailreaders, but I've never had any complaints about Mail.app.