Is there any way to open messages in the same window? It's highly annoying to have to open messages in new windows and have to manage multiple windows.
Sparrow - The New Mail for Mac
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#12seems like it would have been easier to support imap first, and then it would instantly support gmail and every other email provider.
Except that Gmail over IMAP never feels quite right. I'm dying for a desktop app that has the same experience as gmail in the browser. Fluid and Mailplane are currently the only way to do that, but I want it in a native app, not a hosted browser window.
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#13seems like it would have been easier to support imap first, and then it would instantly support gmail and every other email provider.
Unfortunately, IMAP is a mess of a specification that is not consistently implemented between different vendors. Gmail itself is not built on top of IMAP at all, it just has a layer thrown on top for compatibility. This path seems to make a lot of sense.
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#14I'll try this as soon as somebody proves to me it doesn't immediately send my GMail password to a Russian spam factory.
It doesn't. It only contacts imap.gmail.com and l.google.com
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#15A nice little preview. I can see its appeal although I'm not sure I'm ready to make the switch. One little pet peeve though. Why do so many Mac apps want to create a menuling now? It's not the Windows system tray. There's no good reason why this mail client needs a menuling. It can communicate everything through its Dock icon.
For programs that sit in the background (ie. Dropbox), the menuling is better. However I prefer the black "Leopard" style menulings. I disable it if it has color because it's distracting.
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#17seems like it would have been easier to support imap first, and then it would instantly support gmail and every other email provider.
It would only support the IMAP subset of Gmail, which every other client does.
Having conversations is one of GMail's USPs, and I've been waiting a long time for a mail client that supports them (was amazed that Outlook 2011 only went half way towards them as well).
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#18The title is misleading. Can this be edited to denote that this is only for Gmail and not a generic mail client?
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#19The title is misleading. Can this be edited to denote that this is only for Gmail and not a generic mail client?
They claim "coming soon" status for imap. Presumably the title reflects the developer's intent for it.
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#20A nice little preview. I can see its appeal although I'm not sure I'm ready to make the switch. One little pet peeve though. Why do so many Mac apps want to create a menuling now? It's not the Windows system tray. There's no good reason why this mail client needs a menuling. It can communicate everything through its Dock icon.
Well, the dock takes up a lot of space and for a lot of people it's not always visible. The menu bar is always there, ready to display information.