ADdaveMay 22, 2023
Christina Warren
PSA for anyone who uses Gmail but wants a good native Mac app, Mimestream is finally out of beta an 1.0 launched! Yah, it is subscription, no, I dont care! Easiest $30 I’ve spent on software in ages! If you use Gmail for work, especially, this is my favorite way of using it and it is a terrific Mac app. Totally with the $30/$50 a year for me personally. https://mimestream.com/blog/mimestream-launches
Mimestream 1.0 is here!

(12:00PM EDT, May 22, 2023 – Brooklandville, MD) Today, we’re thrilled to announce the public launch of Mimestream 1.0 from beta!

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May 22, 2023 at 4:57pmIvory for iOS
Show threadJack WellbornMay 22, 2023

@film_girl My pitch...

"You there, do you have a Mac and a Gmail account? Do you not like managing email on websites and are tired of the tenuously integrated first party options? Does the idea of a brand-spanking new and overall fantastic email client that doesn't try to ‘reinvent email’ appeal to you? If the answer to those questions is ‘yes', then Mimestream is the email client for you. You even get to pay for it, which keeps its makers working for you, their customer.”

Show threadEric FoxMay 22, 2023
@film_girl I’ll give the trial a whirl!
Show threadErlendMay 22, 2023
@film_girl Here's to hoping they will support JMAP in the future! 🤞🏻
Show threadJon MaddoxMay 22, 2023
@film_girl enjoy it for 6 months before it’s acquired and put in the trash.
Show threadPatrick ToomeyMay 22, 2023
@maddox @film_girl There was definitely a window of time when this was inevitable, but is it still the case? I feel like I haven’t heard of nearly as many mail apps getting bought out recently. I feel like weather apps replaced mail apps for folks with random money for acquiring things. 😆.
Show threadFabian PimmingerMay 22, 2023
@film_girl so sad that gmail doesn’t support snoozing via api.
Show threadJerrod HofferthMay 22, 2023
@film_girl @siracusa Superb app - I loved using it when I was still on Gmail. Alas, I’ve since (finally) managed to migrate off to @fastmail. Crossing my fingers that @mimestream adds general JMAP API support at some point.
Show threadsashk 🇺🇦May 22, 2023

@film_girl Totally agree. If I would still have a job, where we used GSuite (or whatever it called) - it would be a no-brainer to spend... But now that I don't use gmail daily and without generic IMAP support... I simply have no use for it :-(

Miss it every day, when I can't use it, but not willing to switch to Google email just because of it...

Show threadRobert AtkinsMay 22, 2023
@film_girl Apologies for piggybacking on this thread to ask if anyone knows how to get Google Calendar to integrate properly with the native iOS and macOS calendar apps: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/422611/google-calendar-via-calendar-app-is-a-usable-experience-possible (I’m using Fantastical but it’s way overkill for what I need, which is just the basic features of the native apps to… work.)
Google Calendar via Calendar.app—is a usable experience possible?

My company uses Google Workspace (aka G Suite, aka Google Apps for Business.) I use a Mac and iOS devices, and I would like to use the native calendar apps on those platforms to interface with Google

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Show threadChristina WarrenMay 22, 2023
@ratkins literally I use Fantastical for exactly this. BusyCal was a good alternative I used to use years ago for something similar!
Show threadRobert AtkinsMay 22, 2023
@film_girl *sigh*. What I’d really love is a proxy service I could auth to that translated WebDAV into whatever GCal speaks and vice versa. I like the built-in apps!
Show threadChristina WarrenMay 22, 2023
@ratkins totally — that said, I’ve been using an alternative for like 15 years it feels like? I was big on busycal but then fantastical’s natural language stuff got me. I can have a passable experience for my personal google calendars in the native apps, but I can’t for corporate accounts. And with an exception for the time I was at Microsoft and not GitHub, I’ve had a google work account since like 2009, so I’ve had to make do with alternatives.
Show threadRobert AtkinsMay 22, 2023
@film_girl Boils my piss that Google somehow doesn’t think it’s their job to make this work.
Show threadChristina WarrenMay 22, 2023
@ratkins I honestly don’t know whose fault it is. Some of it could very well be Apple because even Outlook calendar has difficulties and I know for a fact that Microsoft’s Mac/iOS team is very invested in trying to make things work well.