Hi,

Yes, I was aware of that. Still, many of the items I mentioned could be 
upgraded in Mailplane if they wanted to.

Doug

> On Mar 13, 2015, at 8:21 AM, Mike Kamminga <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Doug,
> 
> Are you aware that mailplane is essentially just a browser like Google Chrome 
> or FireFox but enhanced with some, let's call it, 'extensions' specifically 
> tuned to Google Apps / Gmail. This basically means that the mail application 
> (Gmail) is fully managed by Google and Mailplane is simply unable to do any 
> change to Gmail. We can only extend and to some degree modify (mostly simple 
> lay-out stuff) the app.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mike
> 
> 
>> On Monday, September 8, 2014 at 6:00:26 PM UTC+2, Doug Lerner wrote:
>> Here are some things I prefer about Apple Mail that I wish Mailplane would 
>> seriously consider incorporating in an update:
>> 
>> (1) Apple Mail is a lot easier on the eyes than Gmail via a web browser, or 
>> Mailplane. Apple Mail just looks nicer. Is there anybody who doesn't think 
>> so?There is generally better use of space. I feel more relaxed using it. I 
>> can use it on my MacBook Pro 13" retina without running out of space. With 
>> Mailplane it just doesn't fit as well so I end up using it on an external 
>> monitor. That's fine at home, but when outside it's a nuisance. I wish there 
>> was a CSS set which made it look closer to Apple Mail.
>> 
>> (2) Image attachments are quicker and work better in Apple Mail - though 
>> Mailplane has greatly improved with this since I first started.
>> 
>> (3) You can have multiple signatures per account (useful in a multi-lingual 
>> environment) in Apple Mail, but can't in Mailplane.
>> 
>> (4) You can move messages between accounts in Apple Mail, but can't in 
>> Mailplane.
>> 
>> (5) Editing is much better in Apple Mail. For example, in Gmail/Mailplane 
>> you can’t enter a tab character to line things up! That really drives me 
>> crazy if I'm trying to sent a list of, say, dates and figures to somebody. 
>> Isn't that sort of a basic functionality people wish they had?
>> 
>> (6) In Mail you can “send again” which is really useful. For example, 
>> re-sending an invoice later in the month, with some extra notes. In 
>> Mailplane there is no send again! Or redirect. Mail has both. Even if 
>> Mailplane can't fix the other stuff because it is so tied to the browser, 
>> I'm sure they could add a "send again" feature if they wanted to. The only 
>> way of accomplishing a similar thing in Mailplane is with a multi-step 
>> process which requires editing and also recopying the original recipients.
>> 
>> (7) I think conversations are easier to read in Mail than in Gmail. And it’s 
>> easier to focus on just one message in a conversation. Have you ever tried 
>> to delete one message from the middle of a thread in Mailplane?
>> 
>> So why am I complaining and why don't I just use Apple Mail?
>> 
>> Because Apple Mail isn't as reliable as Apple Mail with syncing with Gmail. 
>> For example, yesterday I was waiting around for a mail I expected to arrive 
>> before 3 pm. It didn't arrive. But I did get email at 2 pm and 3:45 pm. But 
>> then I noticed that the mail was really there on the Gmail server - Apple 
>> Mail had simply skipped over syncing it! And very often Apple Mail might be 
>> late by HOURS in syncing with Gmail. So I was able to get to the mail via 
>> Mailplane.
>> 
>> Also, I'm bilingual, and Gmail/Mailplane work better in Japanese. Sometimes 
>> in Apple Mail Japanese subject headers or even the entire message get 
>> corrupted. That doesn't happen in Mailplane.
>> 
>> So I'm back again to Mailplane. But it's not easy on the eyes and I never 
>> feel relaxed using it.
>> 
>> I'm just hoping some of these basic things can be updated at some point. I 
>> really like the Mailplane team, but I don't have any sense of what they 
>> think is important about suggestions. 
>> 
>> Thanks for hearing me vent a bit,
>> 
>> doug
>> 
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