A companion version of Mimestream for iOS and iPadOS, with everything you know and like about Mimestream for macOS. Let us know what you'd like to see out of the iOS version compared to other existing options!

We've already begun development on this, but there's a significant amount of work left to do. At this time, it is too early to provide an ETA on when a TestFlight beta will be available.

Mimestream syncs via the Gmail API, but currently relies on IMAP for push.

IMAP was selected for push because it's a direct device-to-Gmail connection. However, it has some downsides, including:

• Not feasible on iOS

• Not delivering every type of change event

• Not working when the Google Workplace admin has disabled IMAP

• Slower performance

We plan to provide a new push model that uses the Gmail API, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, a Mimestream event relay service, and the Apple Push Notification service.

We take security and privacy very seriously, and the Mimestream service component will not have your password or access tokens to your Gmail account, and will not have access to any email content. Only push events would flow through the relay service, e.g. the data would basically be "hello@mimestream.com has new email" but this payload would not contain any message content. We will provide a thorough and detailed explanation of this architecture before this is launched.