Mac clients for Gmail

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I have no desire to run my mail through gmail. Is there any consensus on a different alternative to Mac Mail?

I don’t know if there’s a consensus, but I’ve recently moved from Mac Mail to MailMate and am loving it. Highly customisable, fast, excellent search and smart mailboxes, and I like its approach to email. It’s been mentioned several times on TidBITS Talk:

Choosing an email client app

Hi Michael and Graham, I was originally a (very happy) Eudora user. I got along with Apple Mail for awhile until Apple killed the Letterbox plugins (which allowed creating a very simple single line per email interface similar to Eudora). What I use now and love is Mailmate. Mailmate looks quite a bit like Eudora and is almost as geeky in its advanced settings. In Mailmate, one writes in Markdown, the same easy markup language used here on TidBITS talk. Benny, the developer is a real person wh…

Mail app replacement for Big Sur?

MailMate is popular with many here and sounds like your cup of tea.

Favorite Email Client?

Also voting for MailMate. There is no iOS version, but there are two iOS apps which hold similar appeal, as I wrote a few months ago: However, note that they might be overkill if your email needs aren’t all that extensive.

If you’re looking for something more in the line of combined email/calendar/contacts, I was recently made aware of EM Client. I’ve never tried it myself, but might be worth looking into if you’re interested in that sort of thing.