Postbox is a new email application that helps you organize your work life and get stuff done.
Macworld review of v3.0.5: Postbox offers a serious alternative to Apple's Mail app
It has all the elegance and simplicity of Apple Mail, but with more power and flexibility to manage even the most demanding workloads.
Key Features
Macworld review of v3.0.5: Postbox offers a serious alternative to Apple's Mail app
It has all the elegance and simplicity of Apple Mail, but with more power and flexibility to manage even the most demanding workloads.
Key Features
- Ultra-Fast Search - Instantly find messages, attachments, images, links, and contacts.
- Conversation Views - Make sense of email threads through chronological message views.
What's New
Version 3.0.9:
- Several stability improvements
- Fix Twitter authentication
- Fix dictionary compatibility issues
- Fix "Attach To" to work for multiple selection
- Confirm discarding edits when clicking on the Favorites bar
- Added support for outlook.com to Automatic Setup
Requirements
- Intel, 64-bit processor
- OS X 10.6 or later
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Postbox is a new email application that helps you organize your work life and get stuff done.
Macworld review of v3.0.5: Postbox offers a serious alternative to Apple's Mail app
It has all the elegance and simplicity of Apple Mail, but with more power and flexibility to manage even the most demanding workloads.
Key Features
Postbox is available in English, German, French, Spanish (Spain), English (British), Italian, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Swedish.
With all the time you spend in email each day, you owe it to yourself to try Postbox today!
Macworld review of v3.0.5: Postbox offers a serious alternative to Apple's Mail app
It has all the elegance and simplicity of Apple Mail, but with more power and flexibility to manage even the most demanding workloads.
Key Features
- Ultra-Fast Search - Instantly find messages, attachments, images, links, and contacts.
- Conversation Views - Make sense of email threads through chronological message views.
- Better Organization - Tabs, Topics, and To-Dos help you stay organized with less effort.
- Works Great with OS X - Postbox integrates with the Address Book, iCal, iPhoto, Spotlight, and Quick Look. Postbox even works with OmniFocus and Things!
- Quick and Easy Setup - Postbox will automatically determine your connection settings for you!
Postbox is available in English, German, French, Spanish (Spain), English (British), Italian, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Swedish.
With all the time you spend in email each day, you owe it to yourself to try Postbox today!
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OneAfter909 reviewed on 08 Mar 2014
Postbox is the best of all the apps I've tried. Easily sending emails to folders of various accounts is critical, and Postbox is almost as good as Mail Act-On for this. Most email apps fail miserably at giving you the ability to quickly file messages.
Postbox occasionally lags a bit for some tasks. Indexing a folder seems to take an inordinate amount of time. I was unable to get it to work with an IMAP-enabled Exchange account's outgoing server, although MailMate (which, like Postbox, is not capable of handing Exchange accounts) had no trouble with it.
But no other app comes close as a replacement for Mail.
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Baccaroeja reviewed on 05 Mar 2014
My fav Mac mail client. Period.
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chrisdslonly.net3095 reviewed on 27 Feb 2014
On the good side, Postbox has this.
On the very bad side, Postbox has zero support. They claim that support is now only self-help via the FAQs, the guides, and their knowledge-base. There are no support forums, not even community forums, and there is no one-on-one support via email, website or phone. No real support, none, notta. zilch if you have an issue that isn't resolvable with their self-help content, which is really pretty lame for the most part. You will find yourself Googling to try and find someone out there who has asked your questions and been answered with something helpful somewhere on the internet. What you will find are questions and not many answers, you will find some reviews rating the app well done by various online zines. You will find a lot of reviews and rants here and there by people who are very unhappy about a long list of unresolved bugs (and no way to report new ones) and the lack of support. You will find that the app is littered with a mix of seemingly random behavior that for some has resulted in data-loss due to the archiving bug(s).
I tried the app to see for myself, there is a free thirty day trial so go for it, but back up your email with another app regularly. Give the app a spin for a while, for me it was less than an hour in before I found issues preventing me from deleting a folder simply because it has the same name as something else in the trash, can't edit the recipient list went editing a draft, the password database keeps malfunctioning and you have to delete the password for the email account from it and then re-enter it next time you connect, etc. No way to talk to support so I dumped it within two days. And am back to searching a solution.
I would say give it a try, if your expectations are low maybe it will work great for you and you will never miss not being able to contact support and ask why the archive feature sometimes deletes your email and never writes it to the archive and then sometimes works. Why you have to shut down and restart the app every now and then, and other oddities. But, make sure that if your email is important to you, you have it backed up with another app. There are several here on MacUpdate for archiving email.
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The one thing that annoys me is that it keeps popping up a bar at the top of the window asking my to sign in to facebook and twitter and linkedin. I don't want to use any of those services with this app, yet it keeps asking me to do so.
Is there a way to turn that off? I looked in the preferences and it doesn't look like there is.
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RustyIron reviewed on 04 Feb 2014
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Katbel reviewed on 04 Feb 2014
The list of problems is long,
1) starting with ZERO support or even any way to contact them with issues or suggestions. Loads of FAQs, which seem _never_ to address the problem you are having, no Users Support Group where you could look for folks having the same problem you have.
2) I imported all messages from Mail and now I have tons of duplicates and cannot get rid of those(beside deleting one by one..)
3) Impossible to create- or at least I didn't find the way- a filter that works for different accounts, without having to re-create it several time for each account.
4) Account settings are impossible to save; when I relaunch Postbox and check them again , there are back as they were previously.
There are several good features but with all these issues I have to go back to Mail in Mavericks. I bought Postbox yesterday hoping in better results: I hope my "two cents" (10$) will help to solve some of the issues. At least create a User forum group where users can help each other: redirecting to the Thunderbird forum does not help at all!
With respect to #3, this is correct, Postbox's filters are account specific. There are pros and cons to this approach. The pro is that you can create filters that only run on one account, allowing for a greater degree of flexibility and control. The con is that filters for the same content type will need to be set up within each account. Perhaps this is something we could support in a future release.
On #2 and #4, these could be related. If Postbox's preferences cannot be saved to disk, then there could be a 3rd party utility that is interfering with Postbox's operation. Utilities that could potentially do this are disk utilities, disk cleaners, backup software, and virus checkers.
Try temporarily turning those utilities off, start Postbox, change a preference, quit Postbox, then restart Postbox to see if the preference is preserved.
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To answer your suggestion:
I don't have any disk utilities, disk cleaners, backup software, and virus checkers that interfere on my computer because I don't use any of those. I use Mac since many years when MacUsers knew to avoid similar extra software..
The only thing I did was to import the settings from Mail automatically.
I should start from scratch and enter everything manually
and see if it still do that... but it takes time and will to do that again
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CareyB reviewed on 04 Feb 2014
Occasional reboots required to clear stuck emails in out box. And I do mean OCCASSIONAL! This is NOT a deal breaker.
If you're tired of Mac Mail hogging all the resources; if you're tired of using plug-ins to organize your mail; if you just want a faster interface - this is for you.
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But I have my address book on a CardDAV server and I couldn't make Postbox to handle it. Pity!
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Mikoi reviewed on 02 Feb 2014
Hoping this last update fixed it. As for the support, I don’t link the model, but googling something like “postbox support email” i found a working mail address and the answered me in a couple of days. Not the quickest, but reasonable.
For italian speakers (and google translate users) see the review in progress by Paolo Attivissimo
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Nova-Bossa reviewed on 13 Nov 2013
I write emails in different languages and the spell checker does check spelling automatically by language, but when I want to correct a misspelled word, I must select the corresponding language, which means changing language selection often, if the previous email was written in a different language than the current one. This is the only "issue" I have with this application.
Other than that it is, again, really very nice!
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I only wish the character encoding was fixed, though, because it is still a big problem in terms of automatically choosing the right encoding, I often have to manually switch between Unicode and Latin, but I expect that Postbox would handle the same issue as Mail or Airmail (and most other email programmes) do.
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Installed Postbox again after 'thinking about it' for about 6 months. I have full licence from old $30 days but can't see how to add the serial number. Tried preferences and tried About, click on 'License' just takes me to web licence terms
Can anyone help? Thanks Philip
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Which is different behavior than Mac Mail. When you move a message in Mac Mail, it removes the original label.
Does anyone now how to make Postbox's default drag-and-drop behavior a true "move?"
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how can I get support from you? I have a lifetime serial number which does not work after the upgrade. if I lodge a support ticket it gives me autoresponder e-mail which does not address my issue and tells me to e-mail postbox support just to receive the same auto responder message again.
every trouble ticket I Lodge from your website is automatically closed as soon as it's lodged.
what's going on here???????
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Any chance grouping of email by day is going to be emplemented? Please with ability to turn it on/of. Makes browsing email so much easier.
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The system requirements are listed on the developer's website as ,
"Macintosh
Mac OS X 10.5 and later
Intel Core processor family
At least 1 GB of RAM
At least 200 MB of available space on your hard drive (large email accounts may require more space for indexing)
My system exceeds these requirements
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Kgx rated on 03 Mar 2014
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Mikoi rated on 03 Feb 2014
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Clickman 38 rated on 26 May 2013