Comments on: Postbox: a Facelift (and More!) for Thunderbird

By: Rocio

Rocio — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:56:08 +0000

I used thunderbird for a while but it started crashing alot, one day it just died. Then I tried loads of mail clients till I found post box, and it was ok till I tried sending newsletters. Plain emails with little info and links.
Guess… postbox with its brilliant interface, nice plugins etc started crashing…so I guess I’ll keep on trying more and more options.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:07:15 +0000

I’ve been using Postbox since its first beta (switched from Thunderbird) and definitely prefer it over Thunderbird. The search feature is fast and makes it extremely easy to locate messages/info/attachments quickly. I have not had any problems with crashing, despite the fact that I’ve got about 20,000 messages in Postbox, across two different email accounts. I’ve found the team to be responsive with updates and fixing reported bugs (go to their support site on Get Satisfaction).

By: jellywobbles

jellywobbles — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:12:15 +0000

I have been trying Postbox for a week now (with Gmail on 2 laptops & a desktop))& have uninstalled it. Its so buugy & crashes far too many times. Thunderbird blows it into oblivion, as far as usability / stability are concerned. If they plan to “sell this” they’ll have make gigantic improvements. Not to be recommended at any price. That’s my 2c worth!

By: Mac

Mac — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:25:32 +0000

Well I have used postbox through 2 beta builds, took the survey today and found they are going to charge for it either via subscription or fee, and the free version will be ad supported.

Dumped postbox. Too bad, I liked it. In this economy opensource gets my vote.

By: chanio

chanio — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:05:19 +0000

A very interesting article!
Thank you for posting it!

I am very surprised for how difficult it is to find an email composer that admits images and styles…

Now, Gmail labs admits inserting images on every email. But, until now, there where very few javascript email agents that would do so.

The sad thing about this Thunderbird alternative, I guess is that there seems to be no Linux version yet…

Let us now cross fingers for two future options to come with this final version: 1) to be free or at least a freeware, and 2) to include a Linux version. And then, it would be unbeatable!

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:37:46 +0000

As far as I know, only Pocomail and Becky currently share this ability.
You can also do that in Outlook.

By: petiot

petiot — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:49:13 +0000

Portablility is essential to me too. You can make post box portable very easily:

http://stadt-bremerhaven.de/2009/02/10/postbox-selber-portabel-machen/

you ll need to translate the page using google tools. I did it, and am using postbox portably … very nice indeed.

By: Kaitlyn

Kaitlyn — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:59:12 +0000

I’ve looked at Postbox, but I have to have a portable client. ATM I’m using Thunderbird, but if this were usable on a portable hard drive it would be my client of choice

By: Rando

Rando — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:31:06 +0000

yes it is still memory eating but from beta 11 the memory usage is much better as before this beta (but not so low as Thunderbird with extensions).

By: John

John — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:40:44 +0000

I use Postbox on both my XP and OS X machines. On the XP machine, watch out because it’s a HUGE memory hog. Nice, nice app but it can gobble up your RAM pretty quickly.

By: Toni

Toni — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:21:37 +0000

This looks like a very cool e-mail client, with great features. I am using Thunderbird right now, I consider switching to Postbox.

Thunderbird is nice but still needs work my opinion. For example, inserting pictures in a mail should be much easier. And what about the really strange feature you can have multiple address books, but only one can be appointed as a safe-list for the spamfilter???

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By: franp

franp — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:53:07 +0000

The best feature of Postbox is the ability to edit RECEIVED mail.

As far as I know, only Pocomail and Becky currently share this ability.

By: Rando

Rando — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:50:42 +0000

I use it many months now and have to say that I’m very happy with it.

But I miss a few extensions from Thunderbird.
Specially Nostalgy.
It is still difficult in Postbox to move mail to the folders if you have a lot of folders.

The greatest things of Postbox is the search and the usability of the whole interface.

However, it is not sure if the official release will be free.
Postbox creators don’t answer this kind of questions so I suppose it will not be free.