First Impressions: Mailplane - the desktop Gmail client

Personally, its the absolute speed of navigation that keeps me using mail.app. I used to be an avid 'GTDgmail' user, along with greasemonkey scripts (convo preview, gtdmacros) but with all that extra code bloating gmail, the time it took to actually do stuff was unacceptable for true productivity. Now with iGTD's flawless integration with Mail.app, and gmail pop archiving allowing for demon fast searches in mail.app, all I'm really missing is a better sync, and some added functionality between mail.app and gmail,

I kind of feel like the ultimate solution may be some kind of plugin for mail.app that provides better integration between Mail.app and Gmail via pop and web-scraping. It would be amazing to have flagged emails correspond with starred emails online, and and to at least have a smart mailbox archive that was 2 way synced with the gmail archive, so that I could archive emails in Mail.app, and they would move accordingly in Gmail.

Initiative riche et intéressante, mais donnez nous vite une version en Français! Merci.

Always compose in a new window is not working and the program should allow for HTML email.

This is very nice and I like the way it syncs with the Web app. One think that should be added is the ability to know that an email is in the process of sending. Some type of status bar or something spinning so you know its going out

This is very nice and I like the way it syncs with the Web app. One think that should be added is the ability to know that an email is in the process of sending. Some type of status bar or something spinning so you know its going out

Gmail works pretty well.

I foward my accounts to gmail from the servers those emails come in on.

I have my accounts added in gmail and set to reply from the address incoming emails were originally sent to.

I have labels set up so that all incoming mail is sorted by its address it was sent to.

I have them set to be archived when read by POP access, so that when I read them, they're marked as read in gmail.

It's all pretty slick, so with this configuration, there are only a few things that Mailplane adds to the mix.

#14: Yea, a lot of people aren't exactly in love with Google's design sense, but the popularity of many of their apps is a good example of their unique approach to functionality and UI can trump aesthetics.

Since I can assume most of us here are Mac users, we obviously prefer a good balance of both, but a lot of factors can affect one's choice when it comes to something as important as an email client. Gmail simply has some really fundamental innovation that tips the scales for a lot of people.

yeah maybe its just me, but i find googles' UI to be awful from a design perspective. don't more people feel the same way?

#2, because Gmail's conversations feature is to die for. I hate web-based applications as much as anyone, and I *especially* hate Google's so-called sense of aesthetics, but until a Cocoa-native client can display threads like Gmail, I'll suffer gladly.

#9: I don't quite understand how Mailplane is breaking Google's TOS. Care to elaborate?

#10: You're right, that definitely is an advantage of a web app, but many also find that a disadvantage as well because web apps don't integrate with your OS. A feature many people enjoy is being able to, for example, click the email button in iPhoto and have 20 selected photos automatically attached to a new message in Mail.app, or simply draggin and dropping a file onto the Mail icon or a new message to accomplish the same. This is the kind of powerful integration Mailplane brings to the table.

#11: I've never quite understood the separate Gmail account thing. I have about 6 email addresses all forwarding to/funneling through Gmail, and I simply set it up to send/receive from all those addresses, and I have a couple of custom filters and labels set up to organize it all. With these features at our disposal, could you elaborate on why you have more than one Gmail account?