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Review: MailMate 1.5 is no frills, all business when it comes to email
   



   

It may have “mate” in its name, but MailMate doesn’t want to be your friend. It doesn’t want to hold your hand while you create a stylish message on elaborate premade stationery. It won’t track your to-do list or remind you of your appointments. MailMate’s here to help you bend your email to your will, to tame the chaos of even the most cluttered and sprawling account. And MailMate doesn’t mess around.


You want POP3 email? Exchange integration? Too bad. MailMate will give you support for IMAP and only IMAP, and you’ll like it. Hoping for whimsical, painstakingly crafted icons? Tough. Aside from Mac OS X-standard folder images, MailMate uses gray buttons with plain, straightforward text for its interface, trading aesthetic flair for clear communication.

Get used to gray: MailMate’s interface might not be pretty, but you’ll always know where everything is, and what it means.

Planning to send fancy formatted HTML messages? You better know Markdown, the open-source formatting language MailMate supports. Otherwise, MailMate deals proudly in plain text. It’ll bend this rule enough to display basic HTML messages sent to you, and sometimes—but not always—it can be bothered to display attached images within the body of individual messages. It’ll even show inline PDFs, but only if you ask it nicely in its Preferences.


Though MailMate won’t warn you away from phishing attempts and scam emails, it turns off all images in your messages by default, to keep any from “phoning home” via clever coding. It also cooperates with several third-party security add-ons, including the SpamSieve filter and PGP-based encryption.
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