Comments on: Managing Email With Postbox

By: PK

PK — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:51:55 +0000

I downloaded PostBox, and have been trying it out for a few days. Honestly, I think it’s counter intuitive to Getting Things Done. I’ll try it out for a few more days though.

The concept of GTD, is to have zero messages in the Inbox, and to delgate actions, etc…. It seems this application is expecting you to save all your emails so you can reference them later for some reason.

The program is quite a bit slower than Mail.app and takes longer to load images and attachments.

Also the integration with Twit, FaceBook etc, seems like another distraction that really does not belong in an email program.

Just my 2 cents. So far I’m not impressed at all. I will keep trying it out for a little while longer as I would hate to make pre-judgements, but these are my impressions so far.

By: iPhone app reviews

iPhone app reviews — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:54:29 +0000

This sounds like a good email application. Reminds me a lot of the Google Wave email in some ways. I do agree with Andy a little though, It could be some what complex however, most new technologies seem complex at first. I would really have to use it more to make that assessment.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 22:46:52 +0000

The great thing about Mac apps is that they are intuitive, Postbox is too complicated. Also, I just imported Mail data and I know that Postbox isnt giving me the info I know should be there when I do a search. Sorry, it is gone.

By: Wanda

Wanda — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:39:07 +0000

Yes, that is a great feature

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:46:23 +0000

Postbox absolutely rocks.

But I’d give it some time. It needs to get out of beta before I can really start using it. Nevertheless, this is going to be the BEST mail client available on OS X after its release.

By: Suds

Suds — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:56:51 +0000

I have used Postbox for over 3 months and have now decided to go back to the good old Apple Mail. Postbox has been too slow for my taste. Specially for sending out an email, it takes for ever. It authenticates for ever before sending emails.

By: http://www.televisions.me

http://www.televisions.me — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:29:21 +0000

Amazing site! love the easy layout

By: troyjjensen

troyjjensen — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:06:50 +0000

Ready to download the Beta pronto…..but I handle 40% of my email via my iPhone. What about synching with the iPhone….critical to me!

By: Postbox te ayuda a organizar tu email, Carrero

Postbox te ayuda a organizar tu email, Carrero — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:37:00 +0000

[...] ayer lunes su primera versión beta pública, que personalmente estaba esperando desde hace semana que lei sobre su existencia. Postbox es un nuevo cliente de correo electrónico pensado para prescindir de mail.app en Mac OS X [...]

By: David Carrero Fdez-Baillo

David Carrero Fdez-Baillo — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:17:41 +0000

Your mail client is great, i want test for spanish users and help you for translate to spanish :)

By: iMeow

iMeow — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:27:23 +0000

Mmmm… It seems they send out the beta download link manually as I also gave them my email address but have yet to hear anything about where I can download it.

By: D

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:47:30 +0000

Scott:

I signed up the minute I saw the sexy goodness, I HAD to. Call it software lust, gotta have it, whatever you want. I signed up there before I posted here! :)

I seriously look forward to testing the beta – and hope that the price point is at my level.

Thanks Scott!

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:52:23 +0000

D, we are sending out invites to folks on the signup list (http://postbox-inc.com) in small batches as opposed to all at once which is why some folks have already received their invite. We’ll let you know when your invite is ready, just make sure you are on the list :).

By: Tijs Teulings

Tijs Teulings — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:31:12 +0000

Definitely some interesting features. I do wonder how it holds up for bigger mailboxes though, one of the weakpoints of Mail.app. 30.000 messages is not that big really i would like to see it tested with 100 or 200k messages.

By: D

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:10:39 +0000

Well, they say they will notify me once they have the beta ready. But if Angie has been testing it – I wonder if she works there? I hate it when I see ’sexy’ software like this – only to be made to wait! Horrible! lol. Come on guys, it’s ’sexy’ let it out for all to see!

By: D

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:06:14 +0000

I think this is gonna be a great race..I think Apple may end up buying this thing….or something. It’s too good not to, I mean the proof will be in the pudding. You know, price, features – and most of all, how it’s implemented.

By: simplygrey

simplygrey — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:22:42 +0000

BTW, what about iPhone integration? I hesitate to replace Mail.app because I don’t want to mess up (or unnecessarily complicate) push mail notification on my iPhone.

So I guess I’m hoping some of these features do make it into a future version of Mail.

By: Grey

Grey — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:05:08 +0000

Looks interesting, although I haven’t been given a link to the beta version yet in order to test it out.

It does beg the question, though, of what role email will play as social media continues to evolve. I like the way this app starts to integrate social networking and web/media searching, but it seems to me that it’s just a first, very small step.

I’d like to see an app that helps me to organize ALL my conversations throughout all my various social networks (including e-mail). And personally, I’m using FriendFeed (and social networking generally) for the kinds of conversations that Postbox seems to focus on, not traditional email so much.

Anyway, I will try it out. Should be an interesting experiment. I’ve been using MailTags for some of the features Postbox offers, but it’s not without it’s problems and limitations.

Cheers,
~G

By: AppBeacon

AppBeacon — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:27:01 +0000

If you use Gmail, I’d recommend MailPlane. It’s a desktop client for the Mac that works solely with GMail. However, it has some great features. The best is a iPhoto integration. You can drag images from iPhoto directly onto an email to attach them. You can also drag any files into MailPlane. If you’re currently editing an email, they will be attached. Otherwise, a new email will be started and the files attached.

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