AmiGmail brings native Gmail access to AmigaOS 3.2+

AmiGmail, a new native Gmail client for classic Amiga systems, has arrived on Aminet. Developed by Andreas “Andiweli” Stürmer, the application uses the AmigaOS ReAction interface and connects directly to Gmail through IMAP and SMTP over AmiSSL/TLS. Messages remain on Gmail’s servers and are accessed live, rather than being downloaded into a local offline database.

The client supports Gmail’s Inbox, Sent, All Mail, Trash, Spam and Drafts folders, together with expandable nested labels. Users can compose and reply to messages, edit drafts, move or delete emails, mark messages as read or unread, sort message lists and send or save file attachments. It also supports clickable URLs, mailto: integration and automatic Inbox checks at startup or every five minutes.

AmiGmail can continue checking for mail while iconified on Workbench and optionally play a notification sound when new messages arrive. More recent additions include a local contacts manager with CSV and VCF importing, allowing recipients to be selected directly while composing or replying to an email.

Version 1.7, uploaded to Aminet on 17 August 2026, fixes notification sounds for the first new email received after restarting the application. It also increases the Workbench icon stack to 100,000 bytes to avoid stability problems. Development is moving quickly, however: version 1.8 was released through GitHub on 18 August, adding Reply All, message forwarding, email signatures, a startup splash screen and notification sounds bundled directly inside the archive.

Running AmiGmail requires AmigaOS 3.2 or later, a 68020 processor or better, ReAction, a working TCP/IP stack and AmiSSL 5.x. Gmail two-step verification must be enabled so that the application can connect using a dedicated App Password instead of the account’s normal password. Stored account information is protected using PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 key derivation and AES-256-GCM encryption.

There are some deliberate limitations. AmiGmail supports only one Gmail account, cannot be used with other email providers, does not offer an offline message cache and uses plain-text composition rather than an HTML editor. The interface is available in English and German.

Even with those restrictions, AmiGmail provides a surprisingly capable and genuinely native way to access modern Gmail services from a real Amiga. The project is open source under the GPL-3.0 licence and is not affiliated with Google.