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MailMate
Company blog · blog.freron.comprogrammingproductivity
MailMate is the company blog at blog.freron.com, writing about programming and productivity. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Thoughts on Writing Emails Using Markdown”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the blog of the MailMate Mac email client developer, which covers email server quirks and IMAP implementations, and posts about MailMate releases such as the 2.0 beta.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- //2024/mailmate-2-0-beta-released/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-23
- Thoughts on Writing Emails Using Markdown2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-23
What Hacker News says?
I can't praise MailMate[1] enough here: A lean, no-fuss mac email client with first-party support for Markdown (with syntax highlighting!), and plenty of other goodies. Cherry on top, its developer is very active, and keeps a regularly-updated blog[2], talking about email server quirks and many other interesting technical bits. Note that I'm not in any way affiliated with the software – just a very happy customer. […
Comment linking /
on “Markdown Here – Write email in Markdown”Submitted MailMate introduces a new license model as a story · 6 points
HN discussiontext/markdown is a bad idea because it's not backwards compatible. It should be text/plain; markup=markdown, since Markdown is perfectly readable without any software support. See https://blog.freron.com/2011/thoughts-on-writing-emails-usin... for more thoughts on this topic.
Comment linking /2011/thoughts-on-writing-emails-using-markdown/
on “AMP for email is bad”Submitted Thoughts on Writing Emails using Markdown as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you're looking for a more traditional email client, I'd recommend MailMate[1]. It's a no-fuss email client designed for power user (GPG support, Markdown support, advanced filtering, text-only mode, etc.) I've been using it for half a year with Fastmail (personal) and Gmail (work) and pretty happy with it. The author also maintains a blog[2] where he post quirks about several IMAP implementations. For example, Ya…
Comment linking /2013/mavericks-gmail-apple-mail-and-mailmate/
on “Ask HN: Best email client for a Mac?”Submitted Thoughts on Writing Emails Using Markdown as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAlso: "MailMate 2.0 Beta released" : https://blog.freron.com//2024/mailmate-2-0-beta-released/
Comment linking //2024/mailmate-2-0-beta-released/
on “MailMate introduces a new license model”Submitted Re: The Complexity of a Simple Prefix as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMailMate is getting updates again: https://blog.freron.com//2024/mailmate-2-0-beta-released/
Comment linking //2024/mailmate-2-0-beta-released/
on “Ask HN: Recommendations for macOS Mail Client”