Being a longtime Eudora user looking for something to replace it, I thought I would try PostBox Express, and maybe the full version later. It looks good and there are many useful features, but I have to say that I am disappointed.

1. For a gmail account, every time I did something, like saving a draft document or sending a message, a window came up showing the interaction with Google. Annoying!

2. The Sent Mail folder shows 4 messages as unread - I suppose that is what it means. But how do I find the unread messages amongst the 100 messages there? Maybe they should be bolded, but they are not.

3. Messages I send appear in All Mail but with nothing to indicate whether they are messages I sent or messages I received.

4. Just because Apple does it doesn't mean it is right. Displaying just people's names is not always helpful. If people have multiple e-mail addresses, you need to see the actual address. In this case, the only way to get the e-mail address is to click on the name when the message is open. This brings up a black window that is only visible while you stay there. Click anywhere else and it disappears. Try to right click on the e-mail address to Copy it, and the person gets inserted as the recipient in a new message. That's not what I wanted to do!!!

Sorry, PostBox needs a lot of work to be useful.

Have been using it for over 12 months on a G4/450DP with 200GB ATA disk. There were a couple of quirks when I first installed it that wer not mentioned in the documentation. (It actually seemed as though they had not come across the problem before. If you want to install it on a new system, make sure you have the software in a folder - a disk image will not mount!)