Sparrow alternatives (Mac)

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by bonjurkes • 14 years ago

5 7 14 years ago

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So after Sparrow acquired by Google, I am looking for new alternatives (except Mail.app and Outlook). There was a product that will be going to be on beta stage few weeks ago, that I read a news about it on here also.

So what do you recommend?

st3fan• 14 years ago

I recommend to give Mail.app a second try.

stalf• 14 years ago

There's the new MailPilot http://www.mailpilot.co/

bonjurkes• 14 years ago

Thanks a lot!

Too bad it's subscription based

joycew• 14 years ago

I'm looking for new ones too!! Will check out mailpilot now

kaolinite• 14 years ago

Out of interest, why not stick with Sparrow? It won't cease to work now that development has discontinued, or does it rely on something that Sparrow were hosting?

niteshade• 14 years ago

Postbox? Uses Thunderbird's backend paired with Mail's frontend. Not bad, still a memory and disk hog though.

jfb• 14 years ago

The biggest problem with other MUAs on OS X is Spotlight integration. I would love to have sufficient free time to write an mbox importer for Spotlight, because then you could run dovecot locally and still get the nice searching.

Sparrow alternatives (Mac)

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