Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail

#141

Post by nguyenkien » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 11:55 PM UTC

@njhaveri: It's seem the sign up button on top not working

Re: Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail

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Post by saagarjha » Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 12:00 AM UTC

njhaveri wrote: post #48

tomovo wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Screenshot on homepage shows Finder menubar, although the app is active. Looks a bit off.

Oops. Thanks for pointing this out, it's fixed now!

While you're at it, you might what to stop time at 9:41 ;)

Re: Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail

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Post by dylanz » Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 12:06 AM UTC

I'm a Mailplane user as well and once (if) I move to Catalina I'd love to check it out. What would you say are the benefits to Mimestream over Mailplane?

Re: Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail

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Post by njhaveri » Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 12:09 AM UTC

nguyenkien wrote: post #141

@njhaveri: It's seem the sign up button on top not working

Try again? I've been having serious trouble with my email list service (Mailjet).

Re: Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail

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Post by saagarjha » Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 12:10 AM UTC

c1yd3i wrote: post #105

Uh, where's the source code? If I'm trusting you with my mail, you should be trusting me with the source code.

This looks macOS-only, which is largely closed-source. Are you sure you're complaint is directed the right way?

Re: Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail

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Post by CGamesPlay » Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 12:14 AM UTC

dylanz wrote: post #143

I'm a Mailplane user as well and once (if) I move to Catalina I'd love to check it out. What would you say are the benefits to Mimestream over Mailplane?

I'm a second Mailplane user who would be interested in a native app, but I'm on High Sierra and can't use this one.

Benefits: this app likely doesn't use 1 GB of RAM. That's pretty much my only complaint about Mailplane (not blaming them; there's not much they could do about that). The native UI is likely nice, but not going to be the main factor causing me to switch.

Re: Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail

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Post by meehow » Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 12:17 AM UTC

What are the advantages (for users) of using Gmail API over IMAP/JMAP?

It sounds like huge disadvantage when email client works with just one provider.

Re: Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail

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Post by nguyenkien » Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 12:19 AM UTC

njhaveri wrote: post #144

nguyenkien wrote: post #141

@njhaveri: It's seem the sign up button on top not working

Try again? I've been having serious trouble with my email list service (Mailjet).

The bottom button still work

Re: Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail

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Post by somishere » Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 12:26 AM UTC

devin wrote: post #119

No shade being thrown as I recognize this is a beta, but I seem to be crashing with regularity. I submitted reports, but was wondering if I'm alone.

Ditto. Now opening for ~3s before crashing. Possibly coincidence but began after marking all messages in an inbox category as read (there were tens of thousands).

[edit] logs forwarded

Re: Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 12:38 AM UTC

njhaveri wrote: post #2

Hi HN! In the past, I spent over 7 years working on Apple Mail, and today I am really excited to share a new email client I'm building: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail. Mimestream is written in Swift, and uses AppKit+SwiftUI for a clean, stock appearance. It's designed to be fast, lightweight, and use a minimal amount of disk space. Mimestream's advantages over using the Gmail web interface includes…

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