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Add to SafariWhen comparing Mail.app vs GyazMail, the Slant community recommends Mail.app for most people. In the question“What are the best e-mail clients for macOS?” Mail.app is ranked 5th while GyazMail is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Mail.app is:
One thing Apple does well is to integrate its apps and hardware. The mail app is no exception. If you must be in the hermit kingdom, at least take advantage of the (often excellent) features provided.
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Pros
Pro Integration (with other Apps/Hardware)
One thing Apple does well is to integrate its apps and hardware. The mail app is no exception. If you must be in the hermit kingdom, at least take advantage of the (often excellent) features provided.
Pro Will probably be enough for a sizable chunk of users
Since it's the built-in Mac email client and is quite complete feature-wise, most users will not really need any other third-party applications out there. Mail.app should be enough for their needs.
Pro Easily annotate pictures or sign documents inside the client itself
Mail.app has powerful markup tools which let users add annotations to images or even sign documents they got through email without ever leaving the client.
Pro Smart folders on steroids
- You can choose out of tenths of mailheaders (several hundreds including virtual headers)
- "<header> is (not) in <folder> <header>" operator which enables you to do cool filters
- Each smart folder can have smart subfolders by an user definable key
Pro Shows threaded view with snippets in middle panel
Pro Can be easily extended
If the basic features inside Mail.app are not enough, it can easily be extended through plugins to add new features.
Pro Long term support and development
Goichi Hirakawa, the main developer of GyazMail, has been committed to his project since 2003 and delivers updates regularly.
Pro Mail sorting rules
The user can define complex mail sorting rules for incoming and outgoing mail.
Pro 64-bit support
As of v1.6
Pro Native Cocoa API based
GyazMail is a native macOS application, based on the Cocoa API.
Pro customizable fonts & colors
the mailbox view is very comfortable
Pro Very good support for Asian languages
GyazMail is a Japanese product, so it has very good support for Asian languages.
Pro Supports older versions of macOS
GyazMail is available for all versions of Mac OS X / macOS starting with version 10.1
Pro Freely selectable hard line wrap
In GyazMail you can set a maximum number of characters per line. The program will wrap the lines using hard wrapping on sending. This feature is very useful for newsgroups that require a hard break after 72 characters.
Pro Supports a big variety of character encodings
Uses Oniguruma regular expression library, which is a very elaborate regular expression engine that supports a big variety of character encodings. This makes very much sense with e-mail, as in an e-mail theoretically any character encoding could be used. Because it is free software (BSD), written in C, very elaborate, stable and still actively maintained it is also used in Atom, Take Command Console, Tera Term, TextMate, Sublime Text, SubEthaEdit, and jq.
Cons
Con No option to snooze emails
You can not snooze emails to view later. This makes it hard to keep the inbox clean at all times since you have to read every email and choose to delete or keep them the moment they arrive to do so.
Con Missing lots of advanced features
Out of the box, Mail.app may not have as many features as some other options. This can be mitigated with plugins though. But that is not a perfect solution since third-party plugins may not be very reliable in the long run.
Con Really bad reliability
Database engine gets stuck consuming 100% of one core; crashes; a 40GB log file has been spotted.
Con Updates may break plugins
Apple is known to make API changes to Mail.app when updating which break a lot of plugins.
This can be very annoying for users whose workflow heavily relies on plugins, since they have to wait for plugin developers to make the changes needed to fix any issues brought by the update.
Con Poor performance for some users on El Capitan
Con Ugly
Con Poor calendar integration in exchange mode
Con Looks old and outdated
Con If connection drops or times out, Gyazmail just sits there until you click OK button
Con Cannot remove attachments to save space
Con Still a 32-Bit app
