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by Voyiatzis 1571 days ago
I’ve been using Mimestream as my main Gmail app on macOS for a few weeks, as Mailplane (my Gmail desktop app of choice for the past decade or so is being deprecated). Only thing missing is its inability to snooze messages, which slows down my daily workflow. Hopefully they will add it soon, for it is a well-built Gmail app. I don’t know whether I’d pay a hundred bucks for it, but it would be tempting.
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Unfortunately Google doesn’t provide APIs for snooze or mute, so I imagine it would be a massive undertaking to try to build either feature with custom Mimestream infrastructure. And even then it would be a non-native hack and not compatible with other clients.

I filed feature requests for the missing APIs when I worked at Google (not on the Gmail team), but I never saw any sign up uptake unfortunately.