Comments on: Mailplane: Gmail on your Desktop

By: sbgsr

sbgsr — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:26:21 +0000

sorry

By: Miguel Wickert

Miguel Wickert — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:55:15 +0000

okay, so I picked up mailplane after I realized they offer a student discount. Ye yes. It’s fast, simple and kinda fun. :) Thanks again for sharing!

By: HBB

HBB — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:33:46 +0000

i tried postbox when it was in beta now it’s too pricey. thunderbird3 is coming out n stilll trying to find out if it is better than postbox.btw, how to change snow leopard dock anyone and how to change stacks image in snow leopard

By: daulex

daulex — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:10:39 +0000

Thunderbird ftw. I have 2 of my gmail accounts linked to it and my companies work email account in it, it handles everything beautifully!

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Christmas Giveaway Day 18: Mailplane – Mac.AppStorm — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:00:18 +0000

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By: artmania

artmania — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:38:38 +0000

as a new mac owner and long years gmail user, I’m going to try now ;) thanks for the info

By: Miguel | Simply Blog

Miguel | Simply Blog — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:06:24 +0000

Thanks for the interaction folks, everybody’s comments are quite helpful. :) Never got into Fluid? Maybe I should give it a second look. Mailplane looks fun but I’m not sure about the price.

By: Raf.

Raf. — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:06:21 +0000

There’s also Gmail Notifir, without the E, that really uses Growl, supports notifications for multiple accounts, is open source and doesn’t install anything you don’t want on your Mac.

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:30:15 +0000

I found idle (or push as you call it) to be flaky at best when using Gmail in Mail.app. That, plus the advantages of using the web interface (labels and threaded messages) made me switch to the web interface permanently – not MailPlane though.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:38:03 +0000

What can this do that apple’s mail client can’t?

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links for 2009-06-03 | BlueWave Media — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:02:40 +0000

[...] Mailplane: Gmail on your Desktop « AppStorm Of all the web apps that threaten to replace their desktop brethren, Gmail is the grandaddy of them all. A web-based email app that has enough functionality to compete with the likes of Apple’s Mail or Mozilla’s Thunderbird, Gmail is used by many people around the world as their primary email service. But if you’re like me, sometimes you really wish it had some of the features common to its desktop counterparts, like the ability to drag and drop images into a message, or integration with Address Book. [...]

By: Dan Gayle

Dan Gayle — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:37:05 +0000

For Google reader, then Fluid is definitely your best choice. Since that’s the kind of account you only ever log into once, I put it into Fluid and turn it into a Menu Extra SSB so it always sits in my menu bar. Good stuff.

By: Jikeb

Jikeb — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:05:42 +0000

I think that doing the same thing for google reader gonna be much more useful !!

By: Paul Russam

Paul Russam — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:15:20 +0000

I’ve been using Mailplane for over a year and love it.
Along with the above mentioned features its worth pointing out that OSX sees Mailplane as an app not just a wrapper for Gmail therefore you can set it as your default mail app in the likes of iPhoto. Also any customisation you do in Gmail (change colours/theme, add features etc) will appear in Mailplane.

Best feature? Probably the drag and drop of files to be attached. Drag an image and Mailplane will offer to resize it.

Updates are regular and nearly always contain new or improved features not just fixes, also when Google go and change something Mailplane’s developer(s) are very quick to adapt to it.

By: Marcel Ray

Marcel Ray — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:28:40 +0000

Mailplane is an indispensable part of my app arsenal. I use the drag/drop attachments feature almost daily and the Accounts drawer makes switching accounts painless. While moving all of my accounts to one sounds nice in theory, sometimes I want to make sure I’m emailing from the correct account and am keeping things separate. As mentioned above, Mail.app or Fluid solutions just don’t cut it right now.

By: Dan Gayle

Dan Gayle — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:52:42 +0000

I’ve used every method that has been described above, other than the Stainless app idea, and Mailplane still is the easiest. When you use Mail.app it’s far to easy to mess things up. (Believe me, I’ve done it before. I lost 2 years worth of IMAP mail because of that app.)

Pulling other accounts into Gmail is fine, if you can stand using POP3, which I hate.

As to using Fluid.app, that’s actually the way I was using Gmail before Mailplane.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:14:02 +0000

I’ve been using Mailplane since the early beta, and love it. It’s running all the time on all of my computers. Using Mail.app with Gmail/IMAP is no comparison. Not even close.

By: Josef

Josef — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:50:00 +0000

You can have simplier Mailplane version for free by running Gmail in Fluid or Prism, with Gears enabled. Here is how: http://www.josefrichter.com/blog/offline-gmail-google-docs-helvetireader-etc-using-fluid/

Enjoy

By: Mathias Meyer

Mathias Meyer — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:50:43 +0000

I’ve used Mail.app with GMail before, but I just wasn’t happy about it. GMail’s concept of labels doesn’t mix that well the Mail.app, at least for me. I just recently switched to just using the web interface with Mailplane, and I’m quite happy with it. The desktop integration isn’t really the killer feature for me (apart from the default mail client stuff), it’s the convenience of having multiple accounts without having to use a) Mail.app or b) multiple browser windows.

I was pretty sceptical about the price at first too, in fact I didn’t see the point. But then I just used it for a week, and I was sold. It’s not for everyone sure, but now that I’ve used the GMail interface through the web for a few weeks, using Mail.app just doesn’t make sense to me any more.

By: FiZ

FiZ — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:01:59 +0000

Honestly, I was not impressed with Mailplane. I heard great things about it, but I couldn’t even find it useful enough to keep if it were free. Right now, I tend to just use Mail.app for most purposes, and Postbox is useful for a few special tasks. I really haven’t found a reason to use any of the other desktop webmail apps.