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Any plan to support Outlook.com?
Also interested. Would be good to have the ability to add standard IMAP accounts as well.
Nice to see a native app and not something Electron-based. I wonder about native app viability these days though. Years ago I used native email apps like Outlook, KMail, and Thunderbird, but lately I just use the websites made by the service providers (Fastmail for personal, Gmail for work). As an open standards person I find my behavior kind of depressing, but the websites just tend to work better.
I mean, it's still running WebKit (most likely through a WKWebView) at some point to render any HTML mail. There truly is no escape.
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Can you say a little more about the thinness and what the offline capabilities are? I noticed the search looks like it happens serverside which is great when you're online since you get actual gmail search. What happens when the client is offline?
Search is a merge of server-side results and a very basic local search that right now only looks at From and Subject. If you're offline, you'll get the local search results. When you're offline, you can view messages. However, only the most recent messages are cached in the account, and caching is run lazily with the background activity scheduler, which won't run if your device is under any kind of load and runs infr…
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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.
I admit I cannot see the logic of this statement. Explain?
[1]: A term coined by Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire, (in my opinion) the best Mac-assed RSS reader. https://inessential.com/2020/03/19/proxyman
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This is fantastic, please support Google Advanced Protection as I cannot add my account as a result of it being enabled on my account. "Advanced Protection prevented your Google Account from signing in. This security feature stops most non-Google apps and services from accessing your data to keep your account protected."
Do you need the full advanced protection setup (hw key required for every session)? It does work with the somewhat less draconian normal key support where the key is required just for new logins.
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…
Can you make this a competitor to Thunderbird rather than being locked into GMail? I would love to have an app like this that used IMAP and was multiplatform!
The multiplatform part is completely dependent on if anything is done to get appkit and swiftui working on other platforms, which is probably a solid "no" for the foreseeable future.
https://forums.swift.org/t/swiftui-for-non-apple-platforms-l...
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.
Sadly, no. Mimestream already uses SwiftUI for parts of the UI, and SwiftUI requires Catalina. I plan to release an iOS/iPadOS version in the future, so Mimestream will be investing even more heavily into SwiftUI. At some point later this year, Big Sur will become a requirement, too. I sympathize with those that remain on Mojave, especially those who need to run 32-bit apps, but as a 1-man project, it seemed like a n…
Interesting to see the Gmail API being used for a general purpose email client when Google has a very visible note on the overview page that says: > Note: The Gmail API should not be used to replace IMAP for full-fledged email client access. Instead, see IMAP and SMTP. I'd be a little worried they will disable API access for the client due to this. https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides