Heya, I'm the PM for Nylas. We have a Mac mail client called Nylas Mail that's totally free that we launched on HN a couple of months ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13417616" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13417616</a><p>Built on Electron and the code is open source: <a href="https://github.com/nylas/nylas-mail" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nylas/nylas-mail</a><p>Happy to answer questions about it if you have any -<p>(And, yes, we are working on getting Windows and Linux out - even though it's an Electron app, there's a lot of platform specific stuff we need to do so that it doesn't go all T Rex on your memory and CPU.)
Mailplane has been my go-to--it's basically a native wrapper around Gmail, but has integration with a number of popular Mac apps and native-style keyboard shortcuts and easy account switching if, like me, you have multiple GApps/GSuite logins.<p>Kiwi is similar, but doesn't have quite the level of integration Mailplane does although it has a more modern interface.<p>That said, I missed extension interoperability with Gmail enough that I largely just access the Gmail website directly through Chrome or Safari now.
Well I tried inbox by google for a while and must admit i preferred it over normal gmail.<p>But recently I switched back to Mac own mail app and am very happy.<p>i do plan on giving ms outlook for mac a try sometime though after reading this:<p><a href="https://blogs.office.com/2017/03/01/outlook-2016-for-mac-adds-support-for-google-calendar-and-contacts/" rel="nofollow">https://blogs.office.com/2017/03/01/outlook-2016-for-mac-add...</a>
I've been using Airmail for about 2 years now and I like the markdown mode.<p>But right now, I'm testing both Polymail and Nylas because they both have these specific features that Airmail lacks (and that are deal-breakers for me):<p>- inbuilt open tracking
- templates / canned responses
- rich contacts (like Rapportive)<p>I much prefer a desktop client than the native web interface for email.
I like Airmail (<a href="http://airmailapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://airmailapp.com</a>), they have a markdown mode which I enjoy since most the tools I use involve markdown