Gmail Desktop Client

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Gmail is Webmail. It was designed and intended to be used in a browser. Preferably Chrome. The Android and iOS Gmail apps are somewhat like highly customized email clients.

WMail is completely free and open source desktop client app for Gmail and Google Inbox developed by Thomas Beverley. Besides Linux, it is also available for Windows and Mac OSX. This desktop application adds lots of features such as desktop notification, unread badges that we miss while using web browsers. Features of WMail. Desktop Notifications. Create Gmail Desktop App (Chrome) So your Gmail inbox is now syncing offline, but you still need to open your Chrome browser to access it. The next step is to turn Gmail into a regular desktop app. To do this, simply open Gmail in Chrome, then click 'the three-dotted menu icon at the top right - More tools - Create shortcut.'. We love using Gmail.com for its many features, but if you want offline access and a more 'desktop-like' experience, you can get your Gmail messages delivered to a desktop client, like Outlook. Gmail Desktop App For free download - Facebook Desktop, Palm Desktop, Desktop Themes, and many more programs.

Emails have become an integral part of our life as we need them frequently. There are various email service providers like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and much more. Every internet user has at least one or even more email accounts.

If you have more than one email accounts, you might know the pain to login in every email accounts to check your emails. Also, it becomes quite tedious to navigate through each account in separate tabs. To mitigate such kinds of issues, WMail can be very useful.

Contents

  • What is WMail?
  • Setting WMail in Linux

What is WMail?

WMail is completely free and open source desktop client app for Gmail and Google Inbox developed by Thomas Beverley. Besides Linux, it is also available for Windows and Mac OSX.

This desktop application adds lots of features such as desktop notification, unread badges that we miss while using web browsers.

Features of WMail

  • Desktop Notifications
  • Unread Badge
  • Different Unread searches
  • Unlimited Accounts
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • File Drag & Drop
  • Spellchecking
  • Custom CSS and JavaScript
  • Tray Icon and much more
  • Linux, Windows and Mac OSX Support
  • Gmail and Google Inbox Support

Installing WMail in Linux

Installation of WMail is like a piece of cake. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 but the process for installation remains the same for all other Linux.

  1. At first, download WMail (32bit or 64 bit based on your system architecture) from here.
  2. Once the download is finished, navigate through the terminal to that directory where you downloaded your file(usually in Downloads Folder) and type the following command in your terminal:
    [rara_box box_color='success-box']$ sudo dpkg -i WMail_2_0_0_linux_x86_64.deb[/rara_box]
    Here the filename(WMail_2_0_0_linux_x86_64.deb) that I used may differ later in the future.
  3. Now enter the password and it will finish the installation.

Setting WMail in Linux

Once the installation is finished, launch the application. You can either search and launch manually or launch from the terminal with the following command:

[rara_box box_color='success-box']/opt/wmail-desktop/WMail[/rara_box]

Gmail Desktop Client Mac

A window, as shown below, will appear.

Adding your Gmail Account

Gmail Desktop Client For Windows

  1. Click on Add Inbox Mailbox.
  2. A new dialog box will appear. Now enter your Email address and Password.
  3. Then it will Request for Permission. Click on Allow and your Gmail account will be added.

You can also add as many accounts as you want as mentioned above. Here's a screenshot of how it looks.

Wrapping Up

WMail is very clean and interactive desktop client app for your Gmail account. It helps you to manage your multiple Gmail accounts easily, shows you notifications so that you don't any important emails, provides customization features with custom CSS and JavaScript and much more. Also navigating through emails and replying to them is also much easier and save lots of time.

If you use several Gmail then you should probably try WMail. I illustrated to use WMail in Linux but you can download and setup even in Windows and Mac OSX. The only installation process will differ but setting up WMail will be similar as shown above.

I hope you enjoyed reading this tutorial. If you have any questions, please kindly share with us through the comment section below.

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If you know me you know I love Gmail.

But managing my email in a tab in my browser gives me anxiety.

Everyone should manage their email in a desktop app, separate from whatever is going on in the random 10+ tabs you have open in your browser.

Lightroom customer service. However, to date most of the Gmail desktop apps have tried to reinvent the Gmail experience and interface.

And then I met the guys and gals behind the soon to be launched desktop app – Gmail for Mac.

I've been using the beta version of the app for a few weeks now and it's awesome. Finally, a Gmail Mac app that's fast, reliable and a mirror image of Gmail on the web (plus a few new and amazing built-in features.)

Gmail Desktop Client

Those of you who have tried to use a desktop app but have found yourself back to using Gmail in your browser, you'll appreciate the brilliant yet simplistic thinking that went into the creation of this app.

Instead of telling you anymore about it, let me show you via the screencast demo above and go get yourself this app and my FREE 7-day Gmail course today!





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