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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?
This app is native and fricking fast.
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Since Gmail is monopoly-scale though, they have plenty of users to serve. Gmail has a lot of proprietary features that don't work through IMAP. Most of them could work with JMAP (like labels) but Gmail doesn't support that (yet, at least).
Except labels does work via IMAP: https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/imap-extensions#acc...
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This looks great!! It's beautiful and lightening fast. I would definitely pay for this. Except for one thing. It doesn't seem to support priority inbox, which is critical to my workflow. My currently gmail inbox looks like this: in:inbox is:important is:unread in:inbox -l:important -is:updates -is:promotions -is:social in:inbox -l:important (is:updates OR is:social) in:inbox -l:important is:promotions in:inbox is:imp…
Great feedback – I've gotten this request a lot today. It's been something I've always planned on doing, but based on the popularity of this request, this is a lot higher up on the list now.
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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.
> Instead of using the IMAP protocol, Mimestream utilizes the Gmail API That's sadly a step in the wrong direction. JMAP ( https://jmap.io/ ) has been around for a while and it is a shame google refuses to adopt it.
Being snobby about protocols isn't useful and comments like that should be sent to Google instead.
I have two asks:
1. Glad you're supporting Gmail shortcuts, but sad to say they aren't working in a second keyboard locale which I have (as basically any non-Anglo-American user would). Gmail provides two columns for keyboard shortcuts in settings so I went and manually adapted all keys. Or maybe Mimestream could support that automatically, for instance Superhuman has no issues with the language I'm using. Currently I just can't use any keyboard shortcuts unless I switch my input to English.
2. I specifically dislike unified inbox, could there be a setting to revert the side bar, so instead of the top level Inbox with folders for my accounts it would be top-level accounts with folders for each?
Thank you for working on this!
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.
SwiftUI will make the native application development experience much easier for Apple platforms. It still has a little ways to go, but once it's the "de-facto standard" for new apps, you will certainly see an explosion in innovative native development. Hoping other platforms follow suit. Preferably using SwiftUI...hey, I can dream right?
This makes it seems like it's up to those other platforms, but it's really all about Apple's decision, right? (in which case I'll eat my metaphorical hat if this happens)
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…
Technically speaking that make Mimestream not an email-client, but only a Gmail-client.
It's only an email-client if it works with general email-providers, which this one clearly doesn't.