Pierre,
Since M-M is (and continues to be) so far above the level of the
“Standard” Mail app and so many users (to a lesser extent myself)
use those advanced features, as witnessed here, I add my support to its
roster, the Patron List.
I enjoy both the interaction of the users here, the development of the
app and the knowledge gained from the kind advice rendered by Benny
Kjær Nielsen, MailMate’s lead developer.
Yes, MailMate has a long road to travel and it’s bumpy mainly IMO due
to the big guys and stumbling blocks they caused to be reflected to
others, mainly to block those who take advantage of built-in
deficiencies (worm-holes or worse) in their own apps from hijacking
user’s data.
Happy to be on the bus of users, so to speak, for the ride, putting my
token in the box.
Respectfully,
Henry Seiden
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Techworks Pro Co.
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On 8 Jun 2024, at 9:51, Pierre Igot wrote:
Hi all,
Just yesterday, I was thinking about how lucky we MailMate users are
to have such a powerful, Mac-friendly app on our Macs and such a
dedicated and responsive developer who keeps updating and improving it
and fixing all kinds of problems.
And then today Benny sends his email about Google and the CASA tier 2
assessment…
While I stopped trusting big tech companies (including Apple!) a long
time ago, which means that I rely on their products and services as
little as possible and therefore that I am not a heavy Gmail user and
would probably survive fairly comfortably without being able to use MM
for Gmail access, it would be yet another annoyance and yet another
enforced stumble down the enshittification drain.
I hope that Benny will find the energy and patience to maintain his
app’s status with the powers that be at Google in the future, but I
feel that this also means that, today more than ever, Benny really
needs our support, including in very material ways. This is is why, if
you feel the way I do about MailMate and about the fact that it is NOT
just another Mac app that could be easily replaced if something
happened to it, and if you are not yet a MailMate Patron and could
afford to be one, I urge you to become one. If I remember correctly,
Benny once said that he wouldn’t be able to keep working on MailMate
with regular sales alone and he really needs the regular support of
patrons to keep going.
I have no links to Benny. I am just a (very) happy customer, and I am
writing this completely spontaneously. While I understand that quite a
lot of people are allergic to software *subscriptions*, and I dislike
them myself, I am willing to make exceptions, and MM is definitely one
of them. Being a MM Patron is a kind of subscription. But I really
feel that the app and the developer fully deserve it.
If MailMate feels essential to you like it does to me, I suspect that
Benny’s latest message about his troubles with the Google evaluation
process also reminded you of how much work has to go on behind the
scenes that most of us are not even aware of in order to maintain this
essential app. And I really feel that work deserves to be compensated
— regularly, and not just with a (very reasonably priced) one-off
purchase.
Pierre
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