
EMAIL FOR MAC CLIENT PRO
Users who want convenient, no-frills access to Gmail without having to fire up a Web browser might as well stick with Email Pro instead. But it costs buck more, and has little else to distinguish it. The relatively monochromatic MailPop Pro switches between its various views more easily than Email Pro does, and it offers more keyboard shortcuts. I also liked its ability to make Gmail my desktop background, persistently hanging out behind my other apps. It has a more colorful and intuitive interface, and it explicitly tells you when it is loading messages, instead of just showing a blank window. To me, Email Pro seemed the better choice. And both of them hang out in your menubar, as icons that summon pop-down windows.

Both of them can display Gmail in a simplified mobile view or in a more complex desktop view. These two lightweight Gmail-only clients-think of them as Web browsers that can navigate to only Gmail-offer basic functions at pocket-change prices. But if you lack any very strong nostalgia for the email clients of yore, you’ll find plenty of better and less expensive options out there.Įmail Pro for Gmail, MailPop Pro for Gmail It can import mail only from Eudora, and its ungainly search feature leaves much to be desired.Įudora enthusiasts may see MailForge as the answer to their prayers.

From its chunky interface-the text formatting icons look disturbingly similar to the ones from the PC version of Microsoft Word-to its lack of modern conveniences (like automatic account setup, inline image display, and threaded messages), MailForge feels like a relic from a late and unlamented decade.
