Gmail + Fluid = Win
For the past few years, I’ve been going back and forth on what to do about an email client. I’ve tried mutt, Thunderbird, straight up Gmail and webmail for my domain emails, Mail.app with IMAP, and I find myself coming back to one solution, which I think is what I’m going to stick with, which is Gmail + Fluid. First, mostly everyone knows what Gmail is: Google’s webmail. Fluid is a Mac application along the lines of Mozilla’s Prism, in that it allows you to create an “application” from a web page. I’ve used this functionality to create a Gmail app. Added bonus? The dock icon will show an unread count if you have any new email, which is a nice little bonus feature. As far as the mail itself goes, Gmail collects my (obviously) gmail.com email, and I also have it collecting my endperform.org mail and adding a tag to it for sorting purposes. Gmail allows you to send as an email address you own, so no one would really know I’m using Gmail for my domain mail unless they are looking at headers.
Fluid is free, and is available at fluidapp.com.
