Last updated 12 October 2026
cmail is a macOS email client for Gmail, built for private, personal use. This policy explains what it does with your Google data.
When you sign in, cmail asks Google for access to your Gmail messages, labels, drafts and basic Gmail settings, so it can show, send and organise your mail. If you choose to connect them, it also reads your Google Contacts (to suggest addresses) and reads and updates your Google Calendar events (to answer invitations).
cmail runs entirely on your Mac. It talks directly to Google's servers. The only other connections are pictures inside an email, which load from the sender's servers only when you choose to show them. There is no cmail server, account or cloud service, and no analytics, advertising or tracking.
A copy of your mail is kept on your Mac so it works quickly and offline. Your sign-in is stored in the macOS Keychain. Signing an account out of cmail deletes that account's mail from the Mac.
cmail does not sell, share or transfer your data to anyone. Your data is not used for advertising and is not used to train artificial intelligence or machine learning models. Nobody reads your data.
cmail's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
You can remove cmail's access at any time from your Google Account at myaccount.google.com/connections, and remove the account inside cmail from Settings.
Questions can be sent to the support address shown on Google's sign-in screen for cmail.