“Handsomely appointed with why-didn’t-anyone-think-of-this-sooner features, Postbox seems to anticipate and serve your every e-mail need,” Alderman reports. “The handful of bumps I encountered while taking Postbox 2 for a spin were more than balanced by how much fun it was to use.”
Alderman reports, “If you’d like a top-notch upgrade to your e-mail experience at a reasonable price, and you can live without Exchange support, the terrific and thoughtful features built into Postbox definitely deserve your consideration.”
Read the full review here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Anyone tried this and have feedback?
Switched to this app last month. It is available in a lite Free version and a paid full feature version. No MS support, which is not a problem for me.
Yep, it is a good program. It’s like Apple Mail but better. It’s built on Thunderbird, but it is better than Thunderbird.
It’s my default email client currently (PostBox)
I didn’t know that Apple’s Mail program was a C statement.
How is mail syncing between multiple devices?
“Postbox won’t display PDF files within the body of the message, as Mail does, but it handles inline photos just fine.”
Being able to view the pdf is the key feature required in my business e-mails. I send them and receive them all the time. If while doing a quote I attached the wrong supportive pdf, there would be a problem.
breeze, that is a good point. Does it sync with my iPhone and iPad in real time like Apple’s mail does?
I use it and I love it. I wish there were a way to sync setups between multiple machines. There are so many features that refining your particular configuration can take a while. Duplicating that setup on a remote machine can be a chore.
Re:PDF
Use Quickview
Lack of Exchange support means I must switch to Mail to check a single account.
It has far more problems with account passwords than Mail does and is not always clear what the problem is. It may say that the password is wrong for the mail.mac.com server, for example, without specifying which account it is talking about. Since I have many accounts, over 40, to check, including multiple MM accounts, that makes it a guessing game or me.
I’m keeping it in hopes that it will fix the issues.
I also hope that it will add other features, including some the (former) Eudora used to have.
So, I find myself staying with Mail for now.
I’m sticking with Apple Mail – I really like it.
In a real sense, Postbox 2 is Apple Mail on steroids. Fortunately, I have to check only one Gmail account (personal), and the occasional email to my .me account (usually an email from Apple). I had decided to abandon all of Microsoft Office products and did not wish to go with Outlook. So far, I have been able to survive on Pages, barely on Numbers, and with great ease on the killer Keynote.
Postoffice 2 is easy to set up. It actually adopts all the folders you might have created in which to save important emails.
Definitely, for home, personal and maybe small business use, Postoddice 2 is as slick an Application and worthy of it’s cost, which is very little. Don’t bother with the Lite edition. Go for the real thing!!!!
Version 2.1 is already here.
http://www.macworld.com/reviews/product/666887/review/postbox_2.html?expand=true
But frankly, (being the troglodyte that I am) I’ll stick with Eudora until Mac OSX breaks it. I can’t imagine anything better.
Managing mail, so that all devices (ie: iPhone, iPad and Macs) have all the identical in and out emails, would be the ultimate feature for Apple mail.
All you need is imap mail. I do that with all 6 accounts from iPad, iPhone and my mac