Comments on: Mailplane lifts licence ceiling

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:56:52 +0000

The tussle between Omnifocus and Things is a hard one for me too. What made you choose Things?

By: Barney

Barney — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:28:29 +0000

I am afraid to say I had to abandon Apple Mail because of its very poor behaviour with Gmail’s IMAP. I get the same kind of problem as Dan Warne.

So I’ve moved over to Mailplane and love it! It’s a great app for Gmail, somehow more nimble than using the web interface direct.

But I do miss many of Mail’s features.

BTW, Mailplane also works with Things (which I now use in preference to Omnifocus).

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:49:16 +0000

You, power user, you! ;-)

17GB is a big ask. I’d choke.

Does hiding labels in IMAP (Gmail -> Settings -> Labels) give you the chance to drag the emails down gradually?

By: Dan Warne

Dan Warne — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:29:44 +0000

I have never been able to get Apple Mail working with Gmail’s IMAP… it just seems to spin its wheels — start retrieval after retrieval before it has finished the last one. I have always tested it with big mailboxes though… my current Gmail account has 17GB in it…

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:56:02 +0000

If Gmail’s behaviour as an IMAP account in mail.app were more sensible, I could see your point. Although, then, you sacrifice the efficiency of Gmail’s web interface keyboard shortcuts.

And, of course, the sense that you are on the bleeding edge, living life in the Cloud, etc, etc. ;-)

By: CM Harrington

CM Harrington — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:43:27 +0000

I have to say, I don’t see the point of Mailplane anymore, now that gmail offers full IMAP support. Just create a new account within Mail.app, and be done with it.