DejaLu for Mac1.0

As ex-lover of Sparrow I was searching for a mailclient like this one for years. After spending a lot of money for even paid e-mail clients like Airmail or Inbox clones I am happy that I have found this new one. I would like that when I not show the Sidebar the maillist would be as dark as when I enable the Sidebar. I use dark mode in macOS b.t.w. I hope there will be updates too. But for now I'm glad that I came this one across.

The best. Some problems with iCloud.

Excellent app overall. Very fast connecting to Gmail sending or receiving. Elegant design. Vast improvement on Mail but without the bells and whistles other apps offer but only useful to users flooded with emails every day (Spark, Canary, Astro, etc.). One urgent improvement would be to turn down down the absurdly high volume on the whoosh sound emails make as they go out. It's deafening! I was emailing in an airport today and people around me kept staring every time another email went out, wondering what on earth I was up to making all that noise.

Does not work with iCloud!

I bought it years ago and still love it. Tried Airmail but switched back to Sparrow. You cannot download it anymore. The links are dead.

I'm trying to reinstall Sparrow on a fresh OSX installation. I can't figure out how to install my license. Do I need an older version of Sparrow?

Still the best email client for Mac and gmail. Working great for me in Yosemite. For not receiving a single update in 3 years, that is saying something.

This app had potential to be the best and lightest Mac Mail Client. Sadly after google acquired the company, updates coming out very rarely.

MacUpdate, are you trying to be funny? It's listed at the top of the page as "Free ($9.99)".

If you're looking for another IMAP client after Sparrow, give MailMate a try! It is extremely fast, has some killer views (Conversation View is one), and has a really fast and flexible search function.

Under 10.8.1 with 2 accounts configured in Sparrow (one with a few thousand emails, one with a couple hundred), processor usage spikes to 99.9% (for Sparrow) and while the app is responsive during this time, it cannot be quit without force quitting. This is under 1.6.3... 1.6.4 contains "bug fixes" that might resolve this, but it's not yet in the Mac App Store and it seems the MAS releases in general lag about 2-3 weeks behind the ordinary updates, which is pretty annoying for a bug like this one.

Nothing new since Google acquired. That's da poop!

I have come to the conclusion that Google products have a rotten odor. Including Google Drive,this miserable app,and Music Player which is totally unnecessary. Most or all of their products are dedicated to their own interests not OURS!

What a shame. Why does Google do that? It just makes people hate Google. Now they'll put the amazing designers of Sparrow to work on some lame project that no one will ever use.

Yes, *sigh*, it's a shame that cool mail apps like Sparrow don't have a feasible revenue model to continue in business. I'm very sorry cuz I really like Sparrow (though it does still have minor annoyances that haven't been fixed and probably won't be fixed now). Thank goodness there's still Mailplane to fall back on, and it remains the best g-mail app available. Many thanks to Reuben for keeping up the good fight for better software. Note: I don't keep any emails on my hard drive, downloading attachments only, so you see Mailplane really is perfect for me! I hope other developers will continue to innovate in the mail client apps field.

It was good while it lasted, but I as a rule of thumb try and avoid Google products. So thanks Google... Never the less Apple Mail is great and looks beautiful in Lion/Mountain Lion and has all the features I need so no major harm done. Same to see another promising small project get eaten by corporate giants (Google in particular)

I never got used to the mail client from Apple or any other company for that better. They all seem to use a UI, that looks like it has never changed since 1998. Who still marks his mails "as read" these days? I need to organise my mails so I can find them later, if I have to. Sparrow has a great UI in my opinion, it's fast, looks good and everything is super smooth. BTW: Sparrow has been updates (bugfixes only): Version 1.6.4 (1176)

As a developer I have to say this is what happens if users are not willing to pay a fair price for software. See also: http://appcubby.com/blog/the-sparrow-problem/

I got the email yesterday. Sigh. Figures. Just when Sparrow finally got good and useful for me. R.I.P. Sparrow - and F.U., Google.

Bought Sparrow a month ago, deleted it today. Here's hoping Apple boil Google alive in the courts with their newly-aquired patents and take the lot of them down!, they deserve each other!

It could have been worse, Farcebook might have acquired it. Google bought it so that nobody else might have it. This made me furiously sad but if it is good for Sparrow team I wish them luck, they did great job and made me happy for a long time. They deserve some praise for the work done. No need to insult people who are making money like everybody else. Still a feel disappointed...

"We care a lot about how people communicate" said they... ;-) What"s the meaning of not making if Freeware, now? This guys made their success and fortune on their customers base and now just say "thank you all for having made us rich, now we don't care about you any more — but keep on giving us money, hey!" Will Google make a Sparrow-like client? In this case it will be free and better, but maybe dedicated to Gmail... Wait and see. Those who have to complain are certainly the people who bought Sparrow recently...

Gmail Browser is a great alternative and it is free!

So, does this mean the app will go freeware? Having bought it for my iPad I was looking forward to an update that would be Universal/iPad. But no, the company is bought out by Google before that happens. At least let us have an OS X version for free to make us feel less used and abused. (Of course I know that's as likely as snow in the Sahara in July)

You know, I really want to spend money to support developers. And I did on this one, just one week ago. Maybe go back to bootlegging...

Despite the acquisition news that we received by eMail earlier today, an update has been made available as follows: Sparrow 1.6.3 - build 1164 improved performance when loading huge conversations URL in subject can be clicked date / subject in headers can be selected improved avatar in message cells IMAP compatibility issues brazilian localization fixed progress indicator in message view fixed crash when loading some HTML messages crash when reimporting POP fixed This update is already available at Sparrow's website and via the app's Sparkle update checker. I hope this is not the last one, though it may very well be.

Sparrow cynically killed off by Google. What a shocker- and what a disgrace. "as we’ll be busy with new projects at Google, we do not plan to release new features for the Sparrow apps". Liars.

Well... If you were thinking about spending money on Sparrow, please hold your horses, as SPARROW WAS JUST SOLD TO GOOGLE... And they just announced that THERE WILL BE NO MORE NEW FEATURES, as they simply.... "DON'T HAVE TIME"!!!

I've tested many email clients and I'm always coming back to Sparrow. Very Macish interface, stable and easy to use.

Great mail client for those of us who use GMail. Simple and clutter-free. There're are some rough edges, but you won't find a better alternative at this price.

I really don't like the iOS-like apps on a Mac, but Sparrow is becoming the exception, for it's light, well tailored and responds to what I am looking for in a personal mail client. I miss only an Herald-like plugin.

Note that the free, ad-supported version is available for direct download: http://sparrowmailapp.com/download.php

Seeing that on App Store they have not 1.6.1 ... I don't know if it's a problem for 1.6 only or what else, but today I don't get emails from GMail. I mean, if I check on Web-GMail I see as usually my new emails,.. but Sparrow doesn't get them (???). Even forcing email check. Very strange, it's the first time I get this kind of problem ... and it's a big problem I hope will be fixed. For me at least.

I am really struggling to like this app. The two MAJOR things that are stopping me from using it full time is: 1) No IMAP push support for now (realtime) 2) While open it uses nearly 20% of my CPU cycle time. GUI is perfect and simple on a MAC. The way it should be. And it supports multiple languages with ease. The developer has been very responsive so I know the two concerns will be addressed soon. For now it like a little gem to be taken out and "shown off" here and there. . .

Hi can anyone confirm if sending attachments from this apps make it successfully to Outlook for PC? I am forced to use Outlook for mac because sending files from mail.app is flakey at best. Wondered if this handled attachments OK so I can ditch outlook.

Does it really take Apple over 24 hours to approve the damn update??? Apparently yes. Ugh, so annoyed.

The only thing that annoys me is that font and font size (for ex. Georgia 12) don't stick, they keep going back to the default Helvetica 13 when I start to write a new message.

This doesn't fit my email needs at all. Any client I use must be able to send TEXT only. I could not find any way to do that either in the on-line help or the limited on-line forums. Also, I want to specify a mail agent to read mail, a separate to send, and have the Reply-To: header added. Didn't see a way to configure that.

New version (1.6) is released but not yet on the Mac App Store. Come on, Sparrow...please get it up there.

From: http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/15/3021732/sparrow-for-mac-1-6-features POP support Unified inbox, starred, sent, drafts, trash Esc on Quick Reply saves a message as a draft Empty spam button Inbox Zero message when your inbox is clean Composer: "sender" field no accessible with Tab key Pull-to-refresh for starred, unread, priority messages Shift-Command-Option-M toggles extended sidebar App startup time improvement Bug fixes

No changelog on their homepage? Not cool.

It's good. It's minimalist, and that is either a good thing or not a good thing. In my case, it's not a good thing: too many capabilities that I need are not available (I won't say "missing" because the developers clearly have a design goal for this app, and the features I need don't fit their minimalist plan). One example: I must have the ability to set different archive folders across different accounts. That is, when receiving a message on account A, I need to be able to quickly and easily archive it to account B's Archive folder. Second example: I use IMAP, but not GMail. I really need a tagging feature. Apple Mail gives me both of these features (both 'bare' Mail and more efficiently with third-party plug-ins). I like Sparrow, especially on the iPhone, and I want to use it on the Mac. But until the minimalist design adds just a few more features, it simply doesn't work for me.

Just update Sparrow to V1.6, and it became Japanese!What the hell?

best mail client ever it blows the mail.app mac one out the water love this app

The best way for IMAP mails!!!

i love this!!!

Got this app thinking it would be an OK replacement for Apple's mail if I simply cannot move to Lion. I find the interface WAAAAY too stripped down to be useful. THe contextual menus are confusing because there's no indication that they are there. Where is the ability to change the font size of the folder pane? Where is ANY color?!?!? There's stripped down, and then there's optionless and grey. Oh well. Guess this would be OK for someone who doesn't mind not having any view options who can see the tiny folder list.

It's a lean, mean client that just does the basics and what it needs to to get things done. Ok, so it's "missing" a feature or two compared to Mail or Thunderbird for example, but that's not the point of Sparrow really.... if you have to rant about it not doing something, then you're not getting "it" really! Great product and deserves to go far.... it's now my weapon of choice for email on my Macs.

I love this so far, but it still needs some work IMHO: Email message fonts look good on my laptop, but way too small o my 27" Cinema Display. User needs to be able to configure message and list fonts. User needs to be able to control if signature is above or below quoted text in replies and forwards. Right now it's above which I think is fairly non-standard (though I have no proof, I just seem to see it the other way most of the time). Some functions are confusing and really need tooltip/balloon help popups - like, what's the difference between the two identical looking "reply" buttons - the one at the top (next to "i") and the one at the bottom? I think the one at the top uses Facebook, but I'm not sure. The main four icons (compose, reply, archive, and trash) at the top look like they are from Mac OS 7 days. Why so flat? And we need "reply all" and forward buttons. Would be nice if it could import accounts from mail.app, and had support for local folders.

Great mailing application, only missing Hotmail support. Besides that it's perfect for my use.

IMHO Sparrow is the best third-party mail agent for Mac so far.

Hate to admitted but I use Sparrow more then my Mail. This program is very neat, easy to use, has a little more features then Apple's Mail.

(Sparrow’s interface, which has attracted a lot of favorable comment here, seems deliberately modeled on Apple’s e-mail webpage on its iCloud site.) Why use it rather than Apple Mail? As an e-mail client, its two strengths are its ability to handle g-Mail, and the fact that it allows Mac users who can’t or won’t upgrade beyond Snow Leopard to access iCloud e-mail, as long as they have already set up an iCloud account (such users will probably want to have a look at BusyCal, which does the same thing for calendars, albeit it’s a little on the expensive side -- apparently there’s no similar solution available for contacts, although you can use Address Book as a front end for contacts in a g-Mail account). When MobileMe shuts down, this will be a real boon for owners of older Macs and people who still rely on Rosetta-accessed software. Sparrow has a “Mark as Spam“ option and imports the Apple “Junk” mailbox l, but as nearly as I can tell it doesn’t have any spam filtration system and isn’t “teachable”like Apple Mail. Personally, I don’tsee much value in sending attachments via Dropbox or iCloud, but this is probably some failure of my imagination. There is only one seriously objectionable feature: like Apple Mail, it interacts with the Address Book database and has an auto-fill feature. But it interacts a little too well -- where I work we exchange fairly sensitive confidential documents by e-mail and sometimes some bozo (once or twice I myself have been the bozo in question) sends something to the wrong addressee because he isn’t paying sufficient attention to what the autofill is doing, so John Jones gets it rather than John Smith. When I caught on to this danger, I turned off that feature in Apple Mail. I don’t see any way to switch it off in Sparrow, and this is a bit scary. If you are in a position where you run a similar risk you would probably do well to look elsewhere for your e-mail client.

I love the minimalist approach the developer took with sparrow -clean and unobtrusive and the price can't be beat. I haven't had any CPU issues with my aging 1st gen Macbook. I give it 4 stars because I would like to see google calendar integrated, sure I can get email reminders from calendar but having it part of sparrow would make this a 5 star app for me. Keep up the great work!

Sparrow is spreading its wings! It is fantastic app even free (with advertisements). Minimal CPU. I love it!

While I love Sparrow's UI and workflow, I've consistently found it to be constantly CPU-intensive; hopefully this latest rev. improves things.

It looks good and it's easy to use. It does use quite a bit of CPU (which is why I don't use it). My CPU % was between 1 and 3 percent prior to opening Sparrow and went up to 20-25% once opened. This caused my fan to go on, which I don't like. And I just can't figure out how or why it's better than using gmail's web interface.

Sparrow's interface is clean, simple and intuitive. I'm a big fan.

Sparrow was great until Lion Mail came along. Now can't justify spending $10 when Lion Mail has all the same features + more. Still a great email client if you're inclined.

"Accounts other than Gmail are not supported in this version." Should probably be mentioned somewhere...

Sparrow is beautiful and innovative, but it has its flaws. It lacks a lot of options available in most mail programs. You can't sort ascending. If you read emails from oldest to newest, when you delete an email Sparrow sends you to the next oldest message, not the next newest. You can't use the spacebar to scroll the message, moving to the next message when you hit the end. And if you open a message into it's own window, you can't scroll with the keyboard. So while I love the conversation view and the "slickness" of Sparrow, it is truly built for the user who likes gestures and the mouse. There are several keyboard shortcuts that are welcome, but when the most basic of them are missing, it makes for a frustrating experience for me.

Big fan of Sparrow...1.4 brings in some great new features. For < $10...this is a great value. And who uses POP3 anymore?? Hotmail should provide IMAP for free...that's MSFT's fault. By the way, Sparrow is at StackSocial.com for 40% off this week.

Gmail support only!? No POP support!? Deal killer.

A tiny bit disappointed. I tried the 'Lite' version, and liked it, but it wasn't until I'd paid for the full version I found a glaring omission, the inability to move messages across different accounts. This is a real deal breaker for me, and I'm upset I've paid for this now. I'd also like to see an 'Empty' button for Spam, as there is for the trash. Questions sent to the developer got no response.

Another major problem with Sparrow - it doesn't follow rules set in Gmail email settings. One of my Gmail accounts is set to receive email forwarded from another email service and to send/reply emails using the other service's email account as Send From. No problem with Mailplane - it follows the settings and sends or replies to email from the other email service's account, just like Gmail itself does. But not Sparrow - it allows you to use only Gmail accounts set in accounts preferences in Sparrow as Send From address. A big booboo....

Great minimalistic email app. Slick, fast and responsive. My only problem is the nonexistent customer support. I purchased the licensed version of Sparrow. I had to reinstall OS X recently, and I attempted to redownload the license to activate Sparrow. However, I am taken to a page where it says that my license is unavailable. I sent an email four days ago regarding the issue. I have yet to receive and response or acknowledgement of my problem. The automated response from them says that they are currently responding to emails within an average of 12 hours. Well, that is just a lie. Obviously, it has been well beyond a mere 12 hours. But it doesn't seem that they have noticed that.

What a waste of $$$… Paid, installed on Lion and set up just one Gmail account with Sparrow. It created the database in my System volume in ~/Library/Application Support/Sparrow/ and it is growing fast as I have over 4 GB of messages in this particular Gmail account. I tried to move database to my Data volume and use aliases as well as sybmolic links to point to new location. Not a chance - Sparrow insists that it can't find the mailboxes database and creates new one again in default location. In this era of multiple volumes, external drives, etc. it is irresponsible not to allow changing the default location of mailboxes. I have no problem with keeping Apple Mail mailboxes and DropBox folders on my Data volume and I don't want to waste space on my System volume - it is clean and without any data folders as all are on my Data volume and easy found by any other application through aliases. I want my money back.

I absolutely love Sparrow. Primarily I like that it gives me the threaded "conversation" view similar to Gmail, but for all my accounts and without having to use a web client. Initially I thought Lion's new version of Mail might become my default email client again thanks to its new conversation view. However I realized that Lion Mail's conversation view only shows messages from the current mailbox, while Sparrow includes all messages from the thread no matter where they are stored. To me this makes a huge difference in its usefulness.

This software only gets worse each update. The previous demo download offered a Universal Binary application and now it is Intel only. The features are inconsistent between the demo and the Mac App Store version. Some features have vanished or are no longer usable. I demanded a refund and dumped this dead horse of a product. I waited 7 updates for problems I reported by email and the same problems are still there or have gotten worse. Disabling features is not a bug fix!

We will NOT buy this product with out demoing it first, Please provide a link to a demo.

The new extended sidebar is great. That's a HUGE improvement in terms of usability. However, I purchased a license last month, and now Sparrow prompts me to buy a license. If I click "buy license" I'm sent to the App Store and I'm told that "the operation cannot be completed" (or something similar. Also, Sparrow is no longer available in the App Store. Why's that?

Absolute best desktop e-mail app for Mac. I don't think I could ever go back to Mail.

Will Mac OS 10.7 compatibility be ready by the time the OS is released? There are currently some moderate problems.

Just what i needed for my Gmail account works with Yahoo as well so no complains from me.

This email client is not intended for business use. That's a good thing :) It works perfect at home, is stylisch and is not overloaded with features you don't use. True Mac software!

Been using Sparrow on Snow Leopard for the past month and I absolutely love it. A HUGE step up from Apple Mail in every respect. However.... Apple has just put Sparrow Mail out of business. Their upcoming MAIL on Lion not only matches, but succeeds this piece of software in every way. I don't know how Sparrow even plans to offer something as beautiful as what is in store for Lion users. It was nice knowing you, Sparrow!

I've purchased Sparrow and I find it considerably less useful than the free gmail page furnished by google. I am especially bothered by the fact that the labels I use most frequently do not appear on the label list within Sparrow. The whole concept of gmail is based on the label. Nested labels also do not appear to work within Sparrow. This is such a serious flaw that it makes Sparrow unusable for me.

I like Sparrow a lot, but please remove the dirty shadow of marked mails in list if the window is active. It looks dirty especially if preview is disabled. It looks much better if it has no shadow like in none active window.

it is just best

I've become a huge Sparrow fan. Just tried the new 1.2 update and am loving it. I have a feature request if the developers are even reading this. It would be cool if you guys could implement a way to add avatars to any contact (without using facebook). You've already added a few such as paypal and facebook and it's awesome. I would like to add amazon, newegg, ebay, and others if possible! :)

Tried. Takes MORE memory and CPU cycles than full featured Apple Mail. Uninstalled.

I believe it is worth the money for this app. Works seamlessly with my Gmail account along with lots of labels I use. Minimalistic and really Mac-like. Didn't experience any slowdown issues in mid-2010 mbp.

Feature request: Currently, to label any message in the inbox, you have to right click, scroll down, select label, pick the label, and then you're done. This works well if you intend on using ONE label per message. This system breaks all the way down in terms of efficiency if you need to apply multiple labels to a message, as you have to repeat the action for every single message. Gmail resolves the problem by allowing you to checkmark every applicable label before applying them. Sparrow needs to implement a similar feature. As it stands, it's very inefficient. This inefficiency applies both to inbox labelling and in-message labelling.

Nice program. I've heard rumors though that new mailer in Lion will be Sparrow-like. Lets wait and see...

Download link for 10.5 and/or PPC: http://download.sparrowmailapp.com/appcast/Sparrow-latest.dmg

Simple and easy to use just what i needed.

Well designed, promising, but: very slooowwww.

Well, I took the plunge without waiting for IMAP in Sparrow Lite. I'll answer my own question from below (reply to Drdul's post), and this will hopefully be helpful for people wondering similar things. As I suspected, IMAP folders appear in the labels interface. Clicking on the little tag icon on the bottom left of the window brings up a display of all the folders you've elected to show for that IMAP account. You can also access this list with the keyboard shortcuts for tags. It's also easy to move messages to a particular folder--a Move To button appears in message previews, and you can also use the contextual menu or menu bar. For keyboard-oriented users, the news is good. If you turn on Gmail keyboard shortcuts in Sparrow's preferences, you can move messages purely by keyboard (i.e., hit "v," type enough letters to select the correct mailbox, and hit return). On the whole, I think the IMAP implementation is quite good. There's some confusion possible, though, because of Sparrow's roots as a Gmail client. For example, that's why labels and folders are treated as the same thing for non-Gmail accounts. As far as I can see there's no way to display custom IMAP folders in the sidebar, which I don't really mind, as it keeps the interface nice and clean, and the folders are easy enough to access when you need to.

Now that it supports all IMAP accounts and not just email, this has become a very nice email app. I like the clean and simple interface. My only significant complaint is that there does not appear to be any way to display additional mailboxes/folders. I have one account for which I have created a few folders in which I save messages, and although there's an "Organize" section in prefs where I can choose which folders to display, these extra folders don't appear in the sidebar. I am assuming from comments the dev made in an interview (on Ars, I believe) that version 1.1 is kind of an intermediate step to full IMAP support in version 1.2. I hope that we don't have to wait long for the next version, because I can't really use Sparrow until I can access all mailboxes/folders.

This is a very fine program and the best Gmail client that I could find. It is the only one, aside from Mailplane, that plays well with Gmail without forcing me to figure out the correct setup procedure so as to avoid duplication, or incorrect creation, of labels. The problem with Mailplane is that it's too expensive for being a dedicated Gmail browser with hotkey-wired buttons. I was worried when features for other IMAP compatible services was announced, and I don't plan on using them, but as long as they maintain dedication to Gmail compatibility, I'll remain pleased. The added services only serve to make this a much better value. I only wish the developers would their non-App Store version more obvious, and possibly accessible through this. That's the version I purchased, even though I could've had it through Apple's store. There are some features I wish the developer works towards implementing, such as some of the more popular Lab items [super stars!]. Lastly, I wish it were obviously requested that you turn off the Lab's Advanced IMAP controls. For a while, I thought the program was bug ridden and couldn't send messages.

Beautiful app with a sleek interface that makes checking your mail an enjoyable, artistic experience. Not suitable for "high tech" users who need thousands of options. Worth $10 otherwise.

I've been looking for an app just like this for years. Beautiful interface, conversation view, gmail keyboard shortcuts (which are awesome since I can seamlessly switch between each without having to think about keyboard shortcuts). What more can you ask for? It's the perfect email app for casual email users.

Sparrow does basically the same thing Mailplane does: make the Gmail service behave as a native Mac application. Sparrow is a much, much better implementation of this idea, however. Where Mailplane just wraps a few Mac controls around the HTML-based Gmail, Sparrow rebuilds the Gmail interface from the ground up. Sparrow puts all your Gmail labels into pop-up menus, so that you can right-click a message, and instantly apply the desired labels. It presents messages in a three-pane horizontal interface, so that you can view your inbox and a message/thread at the same time. It allows you to maintain multiple Gmail instances at the same time, and you can switch between them by clicking on the buddy icon representing that account at the far left of the Sparrow window. (Nice, nice touch.) And it gives you a global shortcut for "new message." Contrary to some reviewers, I don't think Sparrow uses an egregious amount of RAM. If you're really using your Gmail capacity, the client will have to cache a lot of stuff, and it's nice to keep some of that in memory, where you can get at it. In any event, Sparrow uses less memory according to "top" than Mailplane does for me. I wish that I could tweak the colors of certain UI elements. For example, I don't think there's enough contrast in the stripe that shows which email in your inbox is selected. Color selection is the only "missing" feature I've identified so far, though I'll probably think of others in a few days.

Why Gmail-only? MobileMe will be free soon.

Sparrow uses a LOT of RAM, even after the initial setup (where it downloads email from the gmail servers). After leaving Sparrow running for a day, it's using 600M+ of RAM (more than Safari). The developers should pull this app from the APP store and fix this immediately!

Only issue I have is SECURITY. The developer should look at encrypting the cached messages. Go to /User/Library/Application Support/Sparrow/ and navigate through your folders... the text files are plain text copies of all your emails that you can open in any text editor and fully read through. Very nice email client otherwise.

FYI, there will be a free, ad-supported version available eventually.

Nice app, but lacks the support to the Contact groups|

Beautiful... and so is the new icon ( big improvement ).

It seems like a decent program. I already have my gmail going to the mail program on the iMac so I wanted to see if it would do more for me. It really doesn't do anything extra at least not for me.