Review: MailPop Pro for Gmail doesn’t stand out from the email client crowd
Have fun trying to decipher MailPop Pro’s icons. The program won’t give you any hints.MailPop Pro for Gmail (Mac App Store only) cheerfully fulfills all the functions of a lightweight Gmail client. But it also adds little to distinguish itself from a passel of similar rivals—which makes its few negative differences stand out even more.
Since MailPop Pro connects directly to Gmail, setup’s a snap—username, password, and you’re all set. You may have to enter a one-time numerical code, but you won’t need to create an application-specific password.
Once logged in, you can send and read your mail the same way you would from your mobile device. The compose message button only seems to work when in your inbox or another mailbox listing, not from individual messages or threads. The adjacent “compose message in new window” button still works, though. Gmail’s drawing features seem broken here, as they are in similar clients.
MailPop Pro creates a popdown window accessible from an icon on your menubar. There’s no option to break this off as a separate window in the mobile view, as in similar programs, but I found the popdown more useful anyway. Desktop and Tablet layouts appeared only in a separate window, with no popdown option.
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