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In Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac or Office for Mac 2011, you receive a 'No Results' message when you try to search for an email message or apply a filter to a folder, and task items are not displayed in the Tasks folder.
Without an easy and effective way for you to communicate with your leads, you’re going to have a very hard time growing your business. This is why, as a lead generation tool, it’s only natural that we examine the 7 best desktop email clients for Mac. The desktop email clients for Mac that we look at in this article make tasks such as organizing email, searching through archives, and staying in touch with friends or professional connections simpler. When you start using an email client that fits your needs best, your daily life becomes much more streamlined and manageable.
Nurturing Leads With the Right Desktop Mail Client
Email is arguable one of the most important aspects of a great lead generation engine because it allows you to have personal interactions with potential clients instantaneously, while managing existing relationships efficiently. When you are able to form and manage meaningful relationships with potential (and current) customers your business is going to grow.
Picking the Right Desktop Mac Client
To help you optimize your sales funnel even more (or even just manage your personal email), we’ve organized the 7 best desktop email clients for Mac. We’ve taken screenshots, written descriptions on features, shared pricing information, and done everything possible to make your desktop email client choice insanely easy.
Our goal with this article is to make your picking of a desktop email client effortless. We’re pretty confident that we’ve done just that.
Meet the 7 Best Desktop Email Clients for Mac
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These are our favorite desktop email clients for Mac, in no particular order.
1. Inky (get it)
Inky talks about itself as being an alternative to Outlook. It works with Gmail, Outlook, and iCloud email accounts if you opt for a free account. If you want to use your business IMAP email account, you’ll have to pay $5 per month (per account). For a clean looking and reliable desktop email client, that’s not too hefty of a price and well worth it. We like Inky because its powerful search functionality will save you time, its custom inboxes will keep your organized, and it’s dead simple to use.
An added bonus of Inky is that if you have multiple devices, you may also like Inky because it works with Windows and iOS, not just OS X.
2. Mail Pilot (get it)
Mail Pilot is an email client that was designed with an intense focus on productivity. It has a minimalist interface that makes it easy for you to read and organize your email. Mail Pilot is a combination of a to do list and email client, which makes it a potentially perfect tool for managing and nurturing your leads.
Mail Pilot works seamlessly on more than just your Mac desktop– it’s also compatible with iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Pricing for Mail Pilot is $19.99 for the email desktop client and $9.99 for mobile versions.
3. Unibox (get it)
Unibox is a radically different take on email. Instead of grouping by message, your emails are grouped by person. This makes Unibox a potentially great pick for lead nurturing because it means that every person only appears once in the main inbox list, making it easier to keep track of new messages and old conversations.
When you press on a person who has just sent you an email in the program, you’re going to see all of the emails that you’ve ever exchanged with them. Previous conversations will be visible to you so you’ll never forget the context of a message when writing back.
In addition to Unibox being available on Mac, it’s also available for iPhone and iPad. The Mac desktop version costs $15.99 and the iOS version is free (with a pro version available for $4.99).
4. Thunderbird (get it)
Thunderbird is made by Mozilla, the creators of the Firefox browser. If you like email clients like Outlook or the standard Mac Mail app, you’ll probably enjoy Thunderbird. The biggest advantage that Thunderbird has over its competitors is how much more customizable it is than them. You can pick themes and find tools or add-ons that make your email life more enjoyable.
Thunderbird is free to download and also available for Windows and Linux, in addition to OS X.
5. Polymail (get it)
Polymail is a new mail client that is currently in beta. It’s ultra sleek and looks somewhat like Slack, style-wise. With Polymail you’ll be able to easily manage all of your email accounts. It works with Gmail, iCloud, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, or any other IMAP account.
Polymail is currently in private beta. If you get early access to Polymail, it’ll be free to use. Pricing for when Polymail becomes publically available isn’t currently posted anywhere.
6. N1 (get it)
Nylas N1 is a new email client built on Chromium’s code. It is meant to be a simple and powerful way to manage your email. It lets you schedule and translate messages, with dozens of other plugins available for you to use.
N1 works with hundreds of email providers, such as Gmail, iCloud, Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo, and others. It works perfectly with Mac, Windows, and Linux. N1 dubs itself as the email client for everybody, and with its compatibility and customizability, anybody should be able to make N1 fit his or her needs.
7. Airmail (get it)
Airmail is a fantastically simple email client for Mac OS X and iPhone. It’s great a looking app and makes managing email feel easy (and even kind of fun!). Airmail supports Gmail, Google Apps, iCloud, Exchange, IMAP, POP3, and local accounts. It also allows you to add unlimited email accounts to a unified inbox, powerfully search through archived messages, and much more.
Airmail is $9.99 for OS X and $4.99 for iOS.
Now What?
We’ve shared the 7 best desktop email clients for Mac with you, so now it’s time to decide on which one you like most. Each mail client that we’ve shared makes reading email on your computer more enjoyable, but they all have their own quirks and nuances. Take some time to learn even about that email client that looks best for you and decide if it will help you achieve your goals, whether it be talking to friends, family, or nurturing a newly collected lead.
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Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac is out! As of July 9, 2015, subscribers to Microsoft Office 365 can use the brand new Office 2016 for Mac suite. Seven updates had been already released since the preview version in March, bringing more stability and performance to this release.
Having trouble with Outlook? Don’t worry, most issues can be easily resolved once you know how. Check out this guide to learn more.
If you’re not a Microsoft Office 365 customer, you’ll have to wait some time before you can take advantage of Office 2016 for Mac by downloading it from SherWeb’s Control Panel. While we’re busy working on the new release, this is an opportunity to highlight the great features of the Microsoft Outlook 2011 for Mac client. Perhaps you’ve never used it? We know you have a wide choice when it comes to accessing your emails on a Mac OS X computer. But to get the most of Exchange 2013 on your Mac, especially if you’re in a corporate environment, you have to use a tool that integrates as seamlessly as possible with your Mac OS X and gives you access to most of the email service features. Mail is the native email app for the operating system, but if you had to use it before, you know it doesn’t have the organizational functions and features that are useful in business! You need the right tool that accommodates both long-time Mac users and Windows users that are shifting to Mac.
That tool is Microsoft Outlook for Mac. The 2011 version was released as a totally new product for Mac OS X users, superseding the former Microsoft Entourage 2008 application. As part of the Office 2011 suite, it came with a new layout. While, it didn’t totally replicate what was then the new Microsoft Outlook 2010 for Windows, it was made to embed itself more tightly with Mac OS X.
For instance, you can use the built-in Mac OS X backup feature – Time Machine – to backup Outlook 2011 with a noticeable difference in performance. Backups are fast thanks to the local email structure in the background: each email item is a separate file.
With Outlook 2011, you can register different accounts (any POP3/IMAP, AOL, Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail or Yahoo mailbox) along with your Exchange 2013 account, under one single identity. Moreover, the mailbox consolidation feature helps you group similar folders, such as inboxes from the different accounts so they appear under one single view. You can easily keep track of all your mailboxes.
The Ribbon, located along the border in top of the window, is the feature that comes from the Outlook 2010/2013 concept. It displays possible actions for a selected item or functionality (mail, calendar, task, contact) and of course, the Mac-style menu is still available.
The Ribbon offers three groups of commands in tabs inside the main window: Home, Organize and Tools. Clicking on the field at the top-right of the window makes a fourth tab appear. The Search tab helps create complex searches with a variety of criteria.
Outlook 2011 will allow you to use one master category list, importing categories from Mac right inside your mailbox.
Contacts, calendar and tasks from Outlook 2011 can still be viewed at a glance when the application is closed, through the standalone My Day app. From Outlook, you can open a set My Day to automatically be launched at the computer start. From My Day, you can create new task items.
Compared to Entourage 2008, editing HTML emails is flawless. Forwarding or replying to an HTML message does not alter its global layout. By default, HTML mode is activated when editing a new email. You can switch to plain mode in a simple click.
Are you using Lync? You may take advantage of the Lync-Exchange integration with presence information right into your mailbox. See availability status and even start a conversation in Lync 2011 for Mac right from your mailbox in Outlook 2011.
Note all the tips above are excerpts of the functionalities you get with your mailbox in Outlook 2011.
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Problem resolution for Mac Users under Microsoft Outlook 2011
Because you get unlimited storage for your Hosted Exchange 2013 accounts with SherWeb, the number of items to be synced with the identity on your Mac computer can be high. To avoid issues linked with synchronization, like database corruption, here are a few tips. Follow them to keep your Exchange identity healthy on Mac.
Email Structure
You may have created folders, subfolders and rules to automatically organize your emails. Outlook will behave better if you create your folders right on top of the mailbox, not under default folders like Inbox or Sent Items.
Note: in this picture, the Daily Requests folder is not nested under Inbox. This is the recommended structure.
To create or move folders at the top of the structure, use Outlook Web App (OWA). Of course any changes made in this web interface are replicated straight inside Outlook 2011.
Moving items
Do not move a huge amount of items directly in Outlook 2011. Chances are high that the application will freeze. To move five or ten emails, you can keep using Outlook 2011. But for dozens or hundreds, use OWA instead.
Synchronization issues
You many notice discrepancies between your Exchange local identity and your mailbox’s contents in OWA (in the server). These are signs that the synchronization with Outlook 2011 is no longer working properly. First, try to force a resync by reloading the cache. If this does not solve the issue, save troubleshooting time, backup Outlook 2011 and rebuild your identity on the Mac computer.
You’re all set for a better experience on your Mac computer… until you get the new Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac client!
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