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Re:Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail by heipei on Thursday September 10, 2020 @02:11AM (#24429398)
What is the advantage of this over using the Gmail web ui? The Gmail web ui works great for me, has keyboard shortcuts, push notifications, works on all operating systems, supports multiple accounts with the /u/1/ subpath, etc. What does this offer that I'd be willing to pay for it and lock myself in to Mac OS exclusively?
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Re:Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail by presentation on Thursday September 10, 2020 @02:16AM (#24429420)
On my machine it feels 1000x faster since it's a native app.
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Re:Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail by tienshiao on Thursday September 10, 2020 @02:36AM (#24429519)
It uses way less memory for me with a handful of accounts. Five tabs of Gmail probably used a couple gigs of memory when left open for weeks.

It's only been a day but 5 accounts in Mimestream is only using 350 megs of memory versus 1 tab of Gmail using 1.4 gigs of memory.

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Re:Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail by bfgmartin on Friday September 11, 2020 @12:34AM (#24439223)
Way faster and uses less memory. Unified inbox. And the killer feature for me is Command-Tab - being able to keyboard switch from my email to the browser.
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