Hace ya unos cuantos que di el salto a Gmail desde Hotmail. Cuando estaba en Hotmail, la importancia de los clientes de correo era enorme porque disponían de un espacio demasiado limitado (me parece que de 200MB), así que no quedaba otra que utilizar primero OutLook y luego Thunderbird para almacenar los correos, porque de aquella las etiquetas y los colorines eran cosas del futuro.
And at least for me, the use I give to email clients has always been more out of necessity than because they are useful to me, and even more so when Gmail offers 5GB of storage and email management in conversations, an organization with labels and more than acceptable spam control. Why use the horrible Mail that comes with Mac to send and receive emails when you can do everything from Gmail in a more comfortable way?
I suppose that’s what you thought about MailPlane, an application that I discovered the other day and that has just become essential. MailPlane is an application that allows you to manage Gmail from its own application, but adding functionalities that allow some tasks to be done much more comfortably, such as adding or removing labels, writing a new message or attaching files “drag&drop”, dragging them directly to the program window and allowing images to be automatically resized so that they do not take up much space.
Other features it has are integration with the computer’s Agenda and also a small notifier that is located in the icon bar and indicates the number of unread emails when MailPlane is minimized. This way, I save myself from having to use two programs (Mail + Gmail Notifier) to perform the same functions. Ah! And another interesting use is that it allows us to have more than one signature for our emails, a quite serious deficiency that Gmail has in my opinion.
The downside is that the application is “a little expensive” since it costs $18, but you can always download the trial version from its website and if it convinces you… pay for it.