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MailMate is an ambitious powerful email client for Mac OS X. It is designed for and only supports IMAP while still working in full when offline. MailMate has state-of-the-art searching capabilities and correspondingly advanced smart mailboxes. Extensive keyboard control and dynamic signatures ensure a highly efficient workflow when reading and answering emails. Alternative message viewer layouts and a browser-inspired design ensure easy and rapid access to related messages.
Shortlist of features:
Shortlist of features:
- Universal mailboxes: One Inbox for all of your IMAP accounts.
What's New
Version 1.4.2:
- Fixes a performance bug in version 1.4.1.
- Improved derivation of default “From” address when using email aliases.
- Introduced key bindings for changing keyboard focus.
- Improved headers editor for recipient addresses in the composer.
- Smoother scrolling in the mailboxes outline for users with a large number of IMAP mailboxes.
- Bounces “Download” folder instead of opening it when saving an attachment.
- Fixed “Edit ▸ Find ▸ Mailbox Search” menu item to behave correctly when selecting it using the mouse (previously it switched to “All Messages”).
Version 1.4.2:
- Fixes a performance bug in version 1.4.1.
- Improved derivation of default “From” address when using email aliases.
- Introduced key bindings for changing keyboard focus.
- Improved headers editor for recipient addresses in the composer.
- Smoother scrolling in the mailboxes outline for users with a large number of IMAP mailboxes. more...
Requirements
- Intel
- Mac OS X 10.6 or later
MailMate User Discussion (Write a Review)
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MailMate is an ambitious powerful email client for Mac OS X. It is designed for and only supports IMAP while still working in full when offline. MailMate has state-of-the-art searching capabilities and correspondingly advanced smart mailboxes. Extensive keyboard control and dynamic signatures ensure a highly efficient workflow when reading and answering emails. Alternative message viewer layouts and a browser-inspired design ensure easy and rapid access to related messages.
Shortlist of features:
Shortlist of features:
- Universal mailboxes: One Inbox for all of your IMAP accounts.
- Extensive keyboard control: Switch mailboxes or move messages using the keyboard only.
- Advanced smart mailboxes: Make any/all combinations of other (smart) mailboxes and use any/all combinations of matching conditions.
- Link-searching: Search for related messages using search links.
- Dynamic signatures: Default signature based on the history of sent messages.
- Notifications: Multiple dock/menu bar counters and Growl notifications.
- Mailing list support: Mailing list messages are automatically organized in smart mailboxes.
- Alternative message views: Easily browse email statistics or use thread arcs to navigate in a message thread.
- SpamSieve integration and full control over image blocking.
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JamieG reviewed on 25 Mar 2012
Unfortunately there is not way I've yet found of deleting messages in the ordinary IMAP way, i.e. simply marking them deleted and periodially compacting folders. I'm afraid that makes MailMate unusable for me. I hope these features get added, I'll come back and try it again if they do.
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"d" = ( "toggleTag:", "\Deleted");
Or you could have explicit keys for setting/removing the flag.
"d" = ( "setTag:", "\Deleted");
"D" = ( "removeTag:", "\Deleted");
You could also override the default key binding:
"UF728" = ( "toggleTag:", "\Deleted"); // ⌦
A red dot is displayed for each message with the Deleted flag set. With respect to “compaction”, there is no simple way to do that yet, but feature requests are always welcome. I think your request is already covered by ticket #232, but you can add comments if you like.
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jasimon9 reviewed on 22 Mar 2012
So I was delighted to try MailMate and see if it bridged the gap.
Unfortunately for me, after first installing it, the program will not run. When trying to launch it, it simply goes into an indeterminate non-responsive state making Force Quit the only choice.
I find it odd with all the complaints here that OS X Mail is sluggish and prone to hang; I find the opposite. OS X Mail is quite stable for me (although it does get sluggish); MailMate will not even run for me.
I should say that I have quite a large volume of mail; probably in excess of 5GB. Don't know if that is a factor. I "should say it", even at the risk of provoking a lot of adverse comment about such a volume.
Because I have not been able to use the program, I cannot give it a rating, except possibly for stability: "it will not run." But this dialog forces a rating. So what can I do?
I suppose I could try a reinstall. For now, since it does not work at all, I have uninstalled it.
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That said, you are still very much welcome to send additional details (like a hang report). I would like to make sure that your problem is related to the number of messages. You can find an email address in the contact page on the homepage.
Thanks in advance.
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Regarding my volume: I do have over 530,000 mail items, with the oldest going back to 1997. My workflow makes this level of retention mandatory. Not that I retain anything near "everything."
I did send a couple of hang reports to Apple; do they forward those to you?
530K messages is more than MailMate can currently handle. The only workaround would be to synchronize fewer messages, for example, by unsubscribing some mailboxes using “Edit Subscriptions...”.
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I am hoping that at some point in the future you might evolve the product to a more capable version with respect to number of messages.
In the meantime, I might consider a test of the type you mention (via Edit Subscriptions) which might allow a more thorough evaluation of the product.
When I first installed it, it imported the IMAP info from OS X Mail and proceeded to download everything. It would seem more practical to not do it this way, because otherwise the same problem is created. So how do I get to the Edit Subscriptions beforehand?
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If you proceed then I would appreciate if we could switch to email correspondence. It's much nicer to work in MailMate than in the textview of this webpage :-)
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johnels reviewed on 10 Feb 2012
I've had to move to IMAP for various reasons and MailMate is the only app I've found so far that doesn't get in the way adding unnecessary features. This came home the other day while trying to show my wife how Mac OS X Lion Mail worked... (it basically didn't). She's getting MailMate.
It feels like there is a lot to come from MailMate. The developer is working really hard on this and is very responsive. I hope this project goes well enough to allow him to keep on with it. I think it has the potential to be a five-star app and I for one, am onboard.
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Mainrotor reviewed on 08 Feb 2012
I think MailMate is woefully under-publicized. Good software surprises a user with thoughtful features. MailMate helps in subtle ways that just aren't obvious until you use it for a few weeks. Things like smart signatures, noticing that "attached" is in the body and asking if something needs to be attached if I forgot, and checking if I've changed a subject line in a reply do I want to start a new thread.
By far my favorite feature is "Correspondence View", which is hard to describe in words. Correspondence View ROCKS! This is one of those functions that you don't know you need until you try it. It's excellent for seeing all associated emails to make the task of purging easy and fast. I finally have my grossly overwhelmed gmail account of 12,000 messages whittled down to 3,000 (and improving daily)!
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Phu reviewed on 12 Oct 2011
Also developer is very responsive to solve the problem.
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Larcenous reviewed on 30 Aug 2011
Add tagging capabilities and GPG support, and you'll have me 100% (not to mention that fifth star) for the foreseeable future.
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Macjudge reviewed on 03 Aug 2011
I soon stumbled upon MailMate and so far I'm very satisfied with it. There are many things I like about it:
- Simplicity
- It feels slightly quicker then Mail.app
- Regularly updated by the Author
- Very Stable so far (4 IMAP Accounts)
At the moment I'm still running Mail.app and MailMate side by side as I'm trying to figure out which works more efficiently for me.
I really like that MailMate is still in a rather early stage of development and since the Author seems pretty responsive I believe there's a lot of potential!
There's one thing I noticed while running Mail.app and MailMate side by side. With the same EMail Accounts, doing simply replying EMails in MailMate and other Hand copying thousands of EMails to another Account in Mail.App, I've noticed that MailMate uses quite some extra RAM (172.5MB vs 257.9MB). The same thing happens when they only 'sit' there after a fresh boot up. Mail.app uses 66MB and MailMate jumped up to 124MB and stays around there.
Anyway, I didn't mean to write so much. I can definitely recommend MailMate and I'm looking forward to see some more progress!
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One thing that you might want to check is the usage of disk space. Mail.app and other System files are compressed on disk in Mac OS X. 3rd party mail programs don't get that benefit. With the same setup between Mail.app and Postbox it was 5GB vs. 18GB used on disk. This is only for the full indexes of one mail account. I have no local folders, all mails are on the server.
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Wickedsp1d3r reviewed on 15 Jul 2011
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Gerrit Kruijer reviewed on 24 Jun 2011
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Themacmarketer reviewed on 11 Jun 2011
The search features and unique views (I'm loving the "correspondence" view put it way ahead of Mail.
The only thing I miss from Mail is the ability to bold my unread mail (perhaps it's in the settings but I can't seem to find it).
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Your download link doesn't work with FF 4. I get to the following page (http://dl.mailmate-app.com/MailMate.tbzMailMate.tbz):
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
AccessDeniedAccess Denied1C840CCCCA2EE607zlDhEygmvuhpMlWnzwnyszswFjP6iI7H5e6XGhWXgGv5x0OX+1PnYAQfWe8hbVsm
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When Mailmate informed me of build 1902, I wasn't aware it was the magical 1.0.
Congrats!
aselem rated on 14 Mar 2012
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