Four years later, I’m still using it and it’s still the best email solution by far. In 2006, I switched my email provider to Google Apps, which combines the power of Gmail with the flexibility of using your own domain name. Perhaps the best-known of these Mac mail clients is Mailplane, actually not so much a fully-fledged application as a frame within which you can access Gmail (it only works with Gmail, which I’ll call Gmail Classic in this post, and Google Apps, which allows you to map your own domainname to your Google Mail account) from your desktop.īecause of the way email works, you need to host it on a server accessible from the Internet: in practice, this means you have to choose an email provider on whose servers your email reside §. None have ever come close to tempting me into using them as my default mail application. I’ve never had any major issues with Apple Mail, which I’ve been using pretty much continuously in combination with my initial Exchange server and my current Google Apps setup, ever since I switched in 2003 but as I’m of a curious disposition, I have tried out a number of the few alternatives that occasionally became available.
The main ones are Mailplane and Postbox, both of which I’ve tried but not found any compelling reason to prefer to Apple Mail. So the launch of Sparrow Mail § is actually a major event, since only a few competitors to Apple Mail are available. Sparrow Mail, which I am certain will soon establish itself as the best email client for the Mac, launches today on the Mac App Store.Ĭreating an email client from scratch is very difficult: this explains more than anything else why so few genuinely new email clients are available for the Mac, outside of Apple Mail which comes bundled in with OS X.
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