Airmail - a new email client for OS X

After the resounding success in the market Sparrow mail client for OS X and his equally loud sale and termination of development, many (myself included) expected an alternative. Just I had to come some lightweight replacement for Mail.app. And now, a couple of weeks ago talking about the Internet Airmail.

For my taste, Airmail design that resembles a cross between Mail.app and Sparrow. The application window is divided into four different widths column:

• Accounts - a very narrow column with circular icons of each of the connected accounts (supported, as usual, Gmail, Yahoo!, iCloud and all that runs through the IMAP protocol).
• Folders - standard Inbox, Important (for Gmail), Spam, Trash, Sent, and any folders you have created in your account (for Gmail is, in my opinion, called tags). The last are automatically assigned colors, and those colors are circles in the corner of the letter in the column-list.
• List - as in any other email-client is a scrolling list of thumbnails of letters. What is interesting, Airmail struggling to find a picture as "avatars" for the sender. And does it for gmail-users, whose photo is easy to take, for example, on Google+, it and for many other things. For example, the automatic distribution (the picture can be seen, for example, Evernote News and Medium Week's Top Post) is also marked with the corresponding ikonknoy. I do not know how they do it, but it looks nice and helps to navigate.
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• View letters - the last one, the biggest column. Here, as in the window of drawing up a new message, nothing unusual was observed.

In terms of functionality Airmail, by and large, it does not offer anything fantastic. Most of all in this respect it resembles all the same Sparrow. Of not very standard things - filling attachment'ov on Dropbox (Sparrow is able to, but Mail.app - not) and automatic adjustment for mail to Google Apps. In other clients, which I had to use, SMTP and IMAP for corporate e-mail servers Gmail had to manually register, even though they do not differ from those used for addresses @ Gmail.com. Airmail, finally, it has shown that this can be done automatically.

Advanced functionality, such as manually adjustable filters and rules, the client does not. The problem in the fact that the application is started normally, but it shows an empty inbox across all accounts. Until the moment when the letter will appear, it may take from 10 seconds to one and a half minutes, and it is, frankly, annoying awful. I hope the developers will fix this in a future release.

Airmail not been useful for me. Congestion of the interface and the brake at the start killing all sense of lightness, and the lack of advanced features (such as setting rules automatically sort by folder) do not allow it to compete with the "older" clients like Mail.app. As a result, after several weeks of use, I returned to the standard client OS X. Try this program, I would suggest to those who love poking around in the new software, or who for some reason are not satisfied with Mail.app. Well, who do not mind $ 1.99, of course.