Many moons ago, I installed an iPhone app called TwitFire. All it did was send a tweet without showing me the Twitter timeline first, but it was surprisingly useful, enabling me to broadcast a single thought to the world without getting distracted by all the other messages. QuickMailer does the same thing for email on your Mac. The idea is that you use a keyboard shortcut or click a menu bar icon, bang out a quick email, optionally add an attachment, and then send it. Since you don’t have to open Mail itself, you can avoid getting bogged down replying to other emails that might cry out for your attention.
It’s quick, but it needs more features to be truly useful.
But QuickMailer has two big problems. First, there’s an annoying, distracting flash of a large window that appears when an email is being sent. Secondly, while we admire QuickMailer’s simplicity in terms of its interface, the lack of options irritates. You can’t define signatures, nor which email account the app works with--just whatever your default Mail.app account is.
Because of this, it’s an interesting curiosity, but probably not suitable for the sort of person who would use it most—anyone with multiple accounts who’s drowning in email and needs to avoid distraction. We hope the developers address these issues in future updates.
The bottom line. We like the idea, but it needs more options before we can recommend it.
Mac OS 10.6 or later
Lets you email without opening a mail client. Inexpensive.
Window flash is still distracting. Not flexible or tweakable enough. Can’t drag in attachments.
