Michal Ždanský We are just last week reviewed of the currently popular email client Airmail, which seems to be trying to fill the hole left by Sparrow, which was bought by Google. The app has come a long way since its original release in May, and today the third major update is out, pushing Airmail even further towards the ideal (classic) email client.
There are many new features in version 1.3 and they testify to the rapid development of the client, with which the developers clearly have great ambitions. The first big news is about search. In the review of version 1.2, I pointed out that Airmail only has a very simple search function, in which it is impossible to determine what exactly should be the target of the search. This changes in 1.3. On the one hand, a whisperer has been added, which, after entering a word, offers the option of filtering according to found e-mails. After entering a keyword (or several words), it turns into a label, where you can choose where Airmail should search for it, whether among recipients, in the subject, body of the message, etc.
Of course, more than one word can be entered and each word can refer to a different part of the email. We could see a similarly solved search in Sparrow, you can see where the developers continue to draw inspiration from, however, let's be happy, given that Sparrow will not receive another major update. Due to the new advanced search, Airmail will start pre-indexing your messages after launch, which can take up to several hours with several tens of thousands of messages on multiple accounts, but the application can be used without any problems during indexing, you will only see a narrow yellow bar at the bottom of the message list.
I'm not sure if the advanced view in the folder column is brand new or if I just missed it in the original review, but I'll mention it anyway. While the folder column normally only shows labels and configured folders, in View > Show Advanced View an additional menu can be turned on, in which there are other useful folders. Airmail allows you to create tasks from e-mails using your own labels and cleverly mark them with colors, in advanced folders you can then e-mails marked as To-Do, Done and Memo display directly. Here you will also find a folder with unread emails or emails only from today.
If, however, you prefer to leave the organization in the form of tasks on your task list, thanks to the new integrations you can. Airmail 1.3 allows you to link emails to Reminders, calendars and third-party applications from the context menu 2Do. The created task always has the name of the subject (can be renamed, of course) and adds a URL scheme to the note, which opens the e-mail in Airmail when clicked. If you're using another task management app, Airmail also supports email drag and drop. So if a third-party application allows you to create a task from a drag-and-drop link (eg Things), as in the case of 2Do, inserts a URL scheme into the note.
Furthermore, the possibility to add colored flags to the email has been added, which will be welcomed by previous users of Apple's Mail application, however, it should be mentioned that the flags do not work like stars, it is just another filtering option available only in Airmail. Users of e-mail services that do not have their own spam filter will appreciate the integration of SpamSieve.
A number of other small improvements can be found across the app, sample copy/paste attachments, global directory, certificates and invitations in Exchange, expandable folders, drafts in quick reply and more. By the way, you can find the full list of news, improvements and fixes in the description of the update in the Mac App Store.
The update to version 1.3 takes Airmail a little further, although there is still room for improvement. However, those who still hesitated to switch from Sparrow or Mail.app, the new update could convince them, moreover, the developers are undoubtedly already working on 1.4. You can find Airmail in the App Store for the favorable price of 1,79 euros.
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I have been using Airmail almost since the beginning and I am extremely satisfied with it.
So what makes it better than the basic app on the Mac? I would like to know the differences :)
Airmail has excellent options for sorting accounts, working with e-mails, uses external plugins, e.g. dropbox, saves an attachment in dropbox and inserts a link in the body of the e-mail and other similar gadgets. Thanks to clever graphic elements, it is easy to navigate.
Apple Mail has an excellent spam filter and is gradually learning, in this Airmail is completely out of the question and you need to use an external spam filter program in it. Apple Mail also has an excellent set of rules for various other actions that can be set up to the applescript level. So practically everything.
I tried to use Airmail for a long time and I must say that I enjoyed working with it, but the daily browsing of hundreds of spams that go to all my accounts annoyed me so much that I returned to the mail that learned to perfectly recognize my concept of the word spam. It also automatically moves important emails to my work folders, marks them in color and notifies me of them with a sound other than the classic one. :) It's a pity that there is no mail client that contains the best of both :).
What to try Postbox Mail…
I'll try it, thanks for the advice.
I would also be interested in the differences, especially those in favor of Airmail. I've been using the default Mail.app since switching to Mac and not that I have a problem with it - I don't, but I sure like to expand my horizons :) Thanks!
I'm probably blind, but where can I set the rules?
but I have a little higher sporteb /2-3x/ according to what I watched
Well, in maverick, Mail is scattered with gmail accounts, it doesn't sync well, especially if I use multiple clients (ipad, window, etc.), so I tried to install airmail and I have to say that it works better in this respect
If I were to start using a new app and get used to it, I would miss having the same thing on iPhone and iPad. This is still holding up Airmail.
I am currently trying Mail Pilot (the editors would like a review ;), it has been for iOS for a long time and now the test version for OS X has been sent. So far, more errors, but I hope for a good end.
The problem is that the application vs. alternatives. Unfortunately, I have to state that Apple Mail just turns me around in the course of time. I use e-mail intensively and have thousands of e-mails and a few respects. I've tried using it several times, unfortunately it's always a pain to use. I still liked the previous version the most, which I used a lot, then unfortunately everything started to deteriorate, sometimes a big update came in Lion, they added new features, the application was terribly slow, even scrolling in emails was difficult, long conversations loaded in an unbearable way -> I switched to Sparrow.
All this has now improved or been completely removed, so I tried to use it again, unfortunately it remained: terrible work with conversations, it also groups together emails that do not even remotely belong together, Apple could realize that the same subject does not necessarily mean, that it belongs in the same conversation. And there were new problems, terrible work with gmail, scattered synchronization, mail goes once to the inbox, the second time to a completely different folder, it takes a century for it to accept a new mail by itself, but I really can't wait 2 hours for an email, etc. etc. -> I am forced to switch again, now to Airmail.
Someone writes here that it has a higher consumption, I only notice it before it indexes its emails, then it seems to me the same as Apple Mail. For the alternative, the fact that I have never understood why Apple Mail puts mail on the disk and takes up 5 GB with it also speaks for me. Airmail and Sparrow work instantly with the server. The main problem, however, is that Apple Mail has not been reliable for a long time. I really don't try, when I send a post and at the end of this, Apple Mail probably recovers and suddenly there are 5 mails THAT GOT STUCK SOMEWHERE, and the one sent by me is no longer relevant, because the conversation is long gone. Not really this.
Can I ask... terrible, TERRIBLE, I struggle with the fact that my emails take up about 30GB on my macbook, which is ridiculous given the disk size of 128. So would you recommend Airmail? Am I working as you say, server? Sorry to ask such a stupid question, but I can't see where to go for a long time and it's driving me crazy. My life depends on email communication and as I can see, we are solving the same problems.
Thank you very much!
All I can say about this is that after stopping Apple Mail, I deleted the post in /Library/Mail, and when using Sparrow or Airmail, I never lost the freed space again. So I conclude from this that they didn't miss anything and IMAP is used as much as possible.
What I use a lot in Mail is to create an event in the calendar directly from the message. Is there something similar in AirMail? For example, someone sends me the message Work meeting at 3 at the boss's place, and after clicking, it is parsed (often correctly) into the calendar.
you know, a clickable link will be created directly in the email, which will give you a choice of what we want to do.
Where are the individual e-mails on the local IMAP? I can't find them anywhere :-(
I don't understand why the messages stay in the inbox when I mark them as "Done". It should be gone from the inbox. Why should a report that is resolved be mixed among those that I still have to read/solve... Those labels are a bit ill-conceived. No?
Or does it work differently?