
We’ll start by looking at Apple’s Mail, then we’ll evaluate some free email options, and we’ll also feature some paid services that are worthy of consideration.
Whether there are built in Security features. Whether there is a cross platform/mobile version. How well the email program integrates with other apps. How quickly you can find important emails. Other email management tools such as reminders and read receipts. How quickly you can reply to messages and useful templates, markdown support, signatures. How well you can clear your inbox with tools such as: postpone/send later/snooze, pre-set responses, smart search, spam filters, and so on. How easy it is to set up, whether you can have multiple email addresses and if it supports the various protocols and services. All modern email programs support IMAP and most still support POP3, a protocol whereby you download your email to your local machine rather than storing it on the email server usually in a mailbox provider account such as Gmail and Microsoft Office 365.We’ve rounded up the best of the best email apps for your Mac, with particular focus given to the following points:
Note: With IMAP your emails are stored on the server so you can continue to use the Gmail web client and, of course, read your email on your mobile devices. You may find an email using the web client for Gmail that you were not able to find in the Apple Mail client. This used to be a real problem but it seems to be mostly resolved but if you can’t find an important Gmail email, you might want to use the web client to do another search. The one drawback that people complain about is that Apple Mail’s search feature doesn’t work that well with Gmail. You can filter mail from specific people, unread messages, read, messages, you name it, in order to work efficiently. Apple Mail is a standard email client but it does have a notable mail filtering feature enabling you to filter mail based on criteria of your choice.