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

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Post by pantulis »

njhaveri wrote: post #23
philips wrote: post #13

Looks great! Given how bad Gmail is on iPad Safari and how bad the Gmail iPad app is there is probably a market there if you port.

Thanks! Porting to iOS/iPadOS is something I would really love to do, but I still have a lot of work left on the Mac client. I'm curious to hear more what your pain points are with Gmail on iPadOS – I've been using the Gmail iOS app on my phone lately, and aside from the nonstandard UI, my experience has been fairly positive.

Easy: no autocomplete on label selection for assigning labels. This drives me nuts on the iOS app.

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

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Post by vimy »

Looks great. I'm currently using Canary mail because the Apple mail data loss bug still isn't fixed after almost a year! Canary mail doesn't feel as polished as Apple mail so I'm happy to see a potential replacement.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/10/11/mail-data-loss-in-macos-1...

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

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Post by dmix »

njhaveri wrote: post #17
m_b wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, i browsed through the website but didn’t find a comprehensive comparison with Apple Mail. Why not just using the default macOS email client?

There are two main differences: 1. Mimestream uses the Gmail API (instead of IMAP), so it supports more Gmail features: Gmail categorized inboxes, first-class labeling support (apply multiple, change color, etc), use all the Gmail aliases you have set up, use the signatures you set up in Gmail, and conduct server-side searches with Gmail search operators. A lot more is coming on this front, as the app is still in dev…

How was your experience working with the GMail API?

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

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Post by njhaveri »

pantulis wrote: post #50

This is great, I'm a heavy G Suite user (I have folders with tens of thousands of messages) and I'm enjoying the beta: it scrolls like butter!!!! (or has teh speedy, as greybeard Mac users would say) I miss some things, like keyboard shortcuts for jumping to a specific label, superstars, search items suggestion (for specific GMail filters like has:attachment), but overall this is really good, and honoring the label c…

Thanks! I will definitely be adding shortcuts for jumping to a label and search suggestions pretty soon. I plan to eventually add tabs and calendar integration, too.

Sadly, superstars aren't yet possible with the Gmail API, but please star this Gmail API issue to express your interested: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/166654165

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

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Post by ValentineC »

Thanks for releasing this. I've been looking for a Mailplane alternative for a while, ever since Gmail started becoming a resource hog when they forced everyone onto their new interface.

Is there a chance you could recompile this to support 10.14?

I'll most likely not be upgrading from Mojave for the foreseeable future, until my 2013 MacBook Pro stops working and I'm forced to get something new.

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

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Post by summitsummit »

this looks amazing! pretty excited to try it. signed up for the newsletter and downloaded it. however...

> Read, compose, send, and permanently delete all your email from Gmail

anything you can say to make me feel better for allowing this level of power for a beta app from a random person on the web? i'd really like to try it out.

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

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Post by philips »

njhaveri wrote: post #23
philips wrote: post #13

Looks great! Given how bad Gmail is on iPad Safari and how bad the Gmail iPad app is there is probably a market there if you port.

Thanks! Porting to iOS/iPadOS is something I would really love to do, but I still have a lot of work left on the Mac client. I'm curious to hear more what your pain points are with Gmail on iPadOS – I've been using the Gmail iOS app on my phone lately, and aside from the nonstandard UI, my experience has been fairly positive.

The GMail app has no keyboard shortcuts- pretty important for iPad users.
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