![]() Full local storage and searching, online backup. I like IMAP for synchronizing across devices. ![]() (sorry probably more that you want to know…) Fastmail is an email provider and also the biggest contributor the open source Cyrus IMAP server. JMAP wants to make IMAP available via web protocols: developed by Fastmail. Somebody proposed a protocol extension for this use-case, but I don’t it got really widespread implementation. If you answered with a one-liner to a larger email with quoting it you had to download the whole message via IMAP, compose and then re-upload it not once but twice: To send it via SMTP to the recipient and to store a copy for yourself in your “Sent” folder in IMAP. IMAP showed its weaknesses already during the Blackberry time: For efficient notification and retrieval you had IMAP, but for sending you had to use SMTP. They sort of opened their protocols in 2007, but nothing gained traction. It’s so bad it’s hopeless to implement it independently. That’s why they are so good (at so many things).īTW Microsoft never cared about IMAP either, they have Outlook and Exchange and have always used their proprietary PST (file) format. Google can do such a search very well, with predictable response times and throughput. For Gmail this means that everything is a search: If you put a message in a “folder” it just gets a “tag” with that folder and if you access it, the system searches all your email with that tag. They have and always had append-only storage and always lots of indices to access this storage. Google never worked that way, their systems are not organized in “folders” in the sense of the filesystem. You need an index for that and IMAP servers didn’t have them really except for header fields. And one problem with this structure was that it was very hard to search in the emails. This worked well in the 1990s.īut then people start to have LOTS of mails. The server can be implemented very efficently with IMAP since it just does that, store each email in a file in a folder named with the name you gave the folder. It makes it easy to store mail in folders and to synchronize these folder with your local computer. IMAP is a protocol designed to access your email and that’s it. I happen to have worked with IMAP (and SMTP) quite a lot. But it’s not true for the format, you can see it when you click on “Show Original” in the web interface, and it’s not true for the transmission of the email between two parties where there is basically only one protocol, SMTP. It’s true in the sense that it’s hard to access your own email via IMAP (singular, it’s just one protocol). Robust Search – Enter any Gmail search query into Mimestream and get consistent results.That’s my biggest problem with Gmail.Signatures – Signatures set up in Gmail are automatically synced with Mimestream. ![]() Aliases – Your email aliases are automatically synced from Gmail without any setup and are used for replies when appropriate.System Notifications – Receive macOS system notifications when you receive new messages, so you never fall behind on important threads.Offline Access – Fully functional when offline and on the slowest connections-perfect for business travelers and whenever you’re on the go.Lightweight and Fast – Mimestream is built for speed, and only uses a minimal amount of disk space to cache recent messages.There are no intermediary servers, and Mimestream does not collect or sell your email. Your data and credentials are stored only on your device, and the app only makes direct connections to Gmail. Categorized Inbox – with support for Gmail’s categories, focus on what matters most and triage the rest at your leisure.Mimestream makes it easy to keep your inbox organized with confidence. Rise above the noise and focus on the work that matters most.Instead of using the IMAP protocol, Mimestream utilizes the Gmail API to enable an enhanced set of features that let you work with ease. Mimestream combines your favorite Gmail features with the power of a native macOS app so you can move through your email effortlesslyĪs a native app written in Swift, Mimestream leverages the full power of macOS to deliver a lightning-fast and instantly familiar experience.
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