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DESCRIPTION
Postbox is a new desktop email client that helps you make the most of your email, offering powerful new ways to find, use, and view email messages and content, organize your work life, and get stuff done.
Postbox works behind the scenes to catalog everything in your email. We mean everything: every bit of text, every contact, address and link. Every picture, document and attachment. It’s all in the catalog and it’s all searchable.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.1b2:
- Languages - To use a different language in Postbox, go to File / Languages and select a language. Note: translations may contain some English strings since they are still being worked on by volunteers.
- Incorporated Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5 security and bug fixes.
- XLIST support for IMAP servers, which enables Postbox to automatically detect special folders such as Sent, Trash, and Drafts in accounts such as Gmail.
- Account Setup - When creating a new mail account, Postbox will attempt to figure out your connection settings for you.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| Postbox User Reviews (44 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Sep 9 2009 |
::MILE:: If you charge 40 US$ for an app you could at least include international localization for a few common languagesÂ…! Unfortunately too many developers just seem to neglect thatÂ… :(
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| Sep 11 2009 |
MKAY I was actually very happy with it and used it for almost a year. But the lack of transparency in the company's politics ("sure, it's free!" > "well it might be free" > "btw it's 40,-") is the main reason I went back to TB / Shredder. I have no problems paying for software I use but I don't use software I don't trust. IMHO they have focused too much on all that bells 'n whistles stuff (social bookmarks and stuff) than adding something that really sets it apart from Shredder. The GUI is nice but 40,- für a polished GUI of Mozilla Thunderbird? C'mon...
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| Sep 9 2009 |
SHATFIELD $40 for an email client. $40! I used to really like this app, but as soon as I heard that they were going to start charging for it, I switched back to Mail.app. Sorry, it's not worth $40!
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| Sep 9 2009 |
SHERMAN WILCOX It was absolutely worth $40 to me. Much more powerful, and reliable, than Mail. Great development team that responds fast as lightning to support questions. Incredible search function with tag system, lets me search for and instantly find attachments, links, images I've sent or received from people. Mail is an email application. Postbox is an email management system for power users.
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| Sep 9 2009 |
JASON EMANUELSON All people want these days is free. Forget that something takes effort, or people want to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table just like you do. I am absolutely amazed just how selfish people have become. How would you feel if something you had spent years on and had bankrolled up front was shot down like you just did? To make it worse, you do so in such a public way. This is so typical of Mac users these days and one of the reasons Mac users get criticized. Whine and complain that the world is not giving you everything you want for free. Software that costs $40 that is integral to most people's lives, and then you have software like Adobe CS, which is on average $1300. How is $40 that expensive for something that helps communication, brings order and in general makes life easier not worth $40? People like this make me ashamed to use a Mac.
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| Nov 16 2009 |
PIK80 The even bigger problem with it's pricing isn't just the $40. The problem is that it's $40 and isn't necessarily better than the free alternatives. It some cases the free programs are actually better. It is the exact same problem that Opera had with the free web browsers.
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| Oct 11 2009 |
PROGRAMHAPPY Developer, can you please add the option to sort all messages in the inbox by EMAIL ADDRESS, not just by "sender"? I run a business, and deal with hundreds of different customers every day. I need to sort by email address! Can you please add an optional "Email" column? You'll be my hero! I'm sure that countless other people would also appreciate this sorting option. If you add that option, I will buy the program immediately. Thank you!
(Version 1.0.1) | |
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 | Sep 9 2009 |
PROGRAMHAPPY Developer, please add an optional "Email" column so that we can sort the inbox specifically and solely by email address. The "Sender" column display a sender's email address OR name. The sender's name is completely useless to me, as my business requires that I sort customers' incoming mail by email addresses. Thank you greatly!
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 | Sep 3 2009 |
STILL_SPARKLING So I've gone back to Apple Mail and Entourage to try and get used to them again since Postbox will start charging for this app soon. I'm torn. One thing that Postbox does better than both Entourage and Apple Mail is Junk Mail handling (at least that's been my experience). It seems to have a more intelligent filter. Often times I'll email a web link to myself so I can read it later when I have more time; Entourage and Mail constantly send these emails from myself/to myself straight to Junk Mail. Even though the mail is from my own account, and no matter how many times I check "allow messages from this sender", they both Junk it. Postbox delivers the mail correctly every time. Another feature that Postbox has that the others don't is excellent editing. Threaded conversations are well laid out and it's easy to insert additional text into any portion of the email and re-send it, or save it and file it. The Searching capabilities of Postbox are also stellar and far outshine its competitors. However, one thing I really like about Apple Mail (that I keep hoping Postbox will emulate) is how it handles misspelled words. Sometimes your email program will think a word is misspelled because it's unusual, or a person's name, or not in the dictionary; YOU know the word is correct, but most mail apps will insist on stopping at the "misspelled" word until you either add it to the dictionary or click ignore. Apple's Mail will allow you to double click "send" and doesn't force you to interact with the spellcheck dialog box at all; it just assumes you know how to spell and sends it. It's very fluid and saves time. Every other email app that I've tried, including Postbox, botches this simple act by forcing you to deal with the spell check dialog box. Why? I'm knocking it down a star because it still has the bug of bolding your email account name (on the sidebar) to signify new messages have arrived, but when you click on the account, no new messages are there. The message(s) will show after you close and restart the app. Annoying.
(Version 1.0b16) | |
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| Sep 9 2009 |
HARRISTYPE All you need to add to Apple Mail is SpamSieve. No other spam filter compares. It's been about 100% correct over the past year.
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| Feb 22 2009 |
MKAY I've been using it for a month now with my 5 IMAP accounts and I really like it. - it doesnt mess with your IMAP folders (like Mail does) - it has a slicker UI than Thunderbird - the 1-click archive feature - grouping conversations even if in different folders - smart usage of TB's "flag" feature for Todos all in all a (almost, it's beta) perfect mix between TB and Apple's Mail. I've had a few stability issues like being unable to delete messages. But hey it's beta and they're doing a good job supporting the app over at http://getsatisfaction.com/postbox. Oh and it's free. Just curious where they're heading policywise .... (license, OS, plugins, etc)
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| Oct 6 2009 |
FUHAYER still no global/common mailbox for more than one accounts ?
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