If you’re using Google’s two-factor authentication, you won’t have to create an aggravating application-specific password, but you will have to enter a code that Google sends to your smartphone. Setup is quick and fairly painless: You just enter the username and password for each account. Mailplane3 now integrates with Google Calendar, too. When you need to upload an attachment, Mailplane offers to resize images from your Mac in small, medium, or large formats before you send them. You can use QuickLook to preview files right in this window, or click the “view” link next to an attachment someone’s sent you. For example, I searched in vain for a way to send calendar items to and from iCal.Ī Safari-style Downloads window lets you keep track of attached files you’ve retrieved from your mail. However, though it works well on its own, Google Calendar in Mailplane 3 doesn’t seem to be as closely tied to the rest of your Mac as Gmail is. Mailplane 3 adds support for Google Calendar in those tabs, as well, so that you can view your appointments as easily as your inbox. In future, it would be nice to see a simultaneous open inboxes feature in the app but until then, it’s the best way of managing multiple Gmail inboxes I’ve found.Mailplane 3’s refinements on that feature set include a tabbed interface: Instead of switching clunkily between one account and the next, you can work with as many Gmail accounts as you like simultaneously, each in its own tab within the Mailplane window. The big advantage I’ve found though is that managing multiple inboxes with Mailplane is so much easier than doing it in your browser.Īlthough you can’t have more than one Gmail inbox at the same time, Mailplane makes switching between them much quicker and less hassle that in Firefox. I like the fact that by clicking on the Menu bar icon, a drop down menu shows you the subject heading of unread mail in each inbox. When new mail arrives, a Mailplane icon in your Menu bar will indicate how many are waiting to be read and each account features a number next to it indicating the amount of mail in that particular inbox. You can add as many accounts as you want using the Accounts button. A similar feature also works for taking screenshots and sending them instantly via Gmail. Alternatively, you can drag and drop attachments such as photos and documents onto mail while you’re composing it which is another very nice feature of Mailplane. There are also buttons for quickly adding photos (with special integration for iPhoto) and managing downloaded items. Along the top of the interface, you have buttons for replying, sending, printing, forwarding etc much like any other mail client. Like a mail client, Mailplane works outside of your browser. Nowadays you can consult Gmail from any mail client like Mail.app or Thunderbird but unlike Mailplane, none of them are made specifically for the use of Gmail or make managing multiple accounts so easy. Mailplane was actually created back in the days when you needed access to your Gmail account from your desktop but IMAP support wasn’t yet available. The best answer I’ve found to this problem is Mailplane. This is even more annoying if you’ve got other Google apps open at the same time because it logs you out of those too. Until recently, I’d been using the Firefox Gmail Manager Plugin but it’s an absolute pain because having two different Gmail accounts open in separate tabs automatically logs you out of both accounts after a few seconds. One of the frustrating things about having multiple Gmail accounts is managing them all at the same time.
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