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There’s a local place up in the DC area called Heller Information Services. Unfortunately, much like web browsers, the world has settled on one or two (Edge and Chrome) and devs put little effort into supporting anything else. Ultimately, the best option is probably to stop using Gmail completely and only use my own domain email.

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Instead, devs are forced to code around it which is expensive for them and makes for too many compromises, in my opinion. If Google would just use IMAP standards, the email app market would be flush with great choices.

It’s too bad, because it looks really nice on the surface. It has way too many features that don’t work – according to the developer’s site, there’s nothing he can do about it, again because Google doesn’t allow it in their API. It uses Google’s APIs instead of standard IMAP – which means the app can just stop working any time Google decides to mess with the API (which is what killed Mailplane)

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It’s (going to be) a paid app – I don’t mind paying for apps, but for my use case, it just isn’t warranted when there are free options (Apple’s Mail, and the web browser) Mimestream ticks all the features I DON’T want, unfortunately. I can see why-Mimestream’s developer, Neil Jhaveri, has been highly responsive to even my suggestions about subtle user experience changes.

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Julio Ojeda-Zapata reviewed it last year in “ Mimestream Brings Gmail Features to a Mac Email App” (25 September 2020), but note that it has improved significantly in the intervening months. Personally, I’ll stick with Mimestream for now. Or they’re just not as concerned about unofficial workarounds breaking. Their developers haven’t commented on the Google authentication problem, so perhaps the apps are architected in such a way as to enable an official solution. I have no experience with them, but several other Gmail-specific mail clients work like Mailplane, notably Boxysuite and Kiwi for Gmail.

I’ve enjoyed corresponding with Lars and Ruben over the years, and they’ve always been highly responsive, aided in part by their customer service system Replies.Īlthough Mailplane users can keep running the app as long as it continues to work and can always fall back on using Gmail in a Web browser, there may be other options. That must have been a tremendously hard decision to make, and kudos to them for doing the decent thing.

Although they have a workaround in place and plan to keep Mailplane running for existing customers as long as possible, there’s no telling how long that will be.Īs such, they’ve now announced that they are no longer selling licenses to Mailplane, and anyone who has purchased Mailplane in the last 60 days can contact them for a refund. For the last 6 months, Mailplane developers Lars Steiger and Ruben Bakker have tried to find an official solution with Google, but without success. Unfortunately, Google has started blocking embedded browsers from its login page in an effort to protect users against man-in-the-middle attacks. Although I’ve been using betas of Mimestream recently, whenever I need to do something that Mimestream can’t yet accomplish, I drop back to Mailplane.

It wraps Gmail’s Web interface in a native Mac app that provides additional features and Mac-native niceties.

#1617: Pages regains mail merge, HomeKit sensor improvements, keyboard flags in Montereyįor many years, my preferred way of reading email was through the Gmail-specific client Mailplane.

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Preview selections, portable power for a MacBook Pro

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