Postbox
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Postbox is an email application that helps you organize your work life and get stuff done.
Cost / License
- Pay once or Subscription
- Proprietary
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
Discontinued
Postbox has been acquired by emClient, and will be discontinued at the end of 2024.
Features
- Multiple Account support
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Exchange
- Visual Programming
- POP3 Support
Box.com integration- Tabbed interface
Dropbox integration- IMAP Support
- Built-in RSS reader
- S/MIME Support
- Multiple languages
Onedrive integration
Tags
- organizer
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Recent News
- POX published news article about Postbox
Postbox has been acquired by eM Client; ends development and support after December 2024The team behind Postbox, a well-known email client for Windows and macOS, has announced its acquisi...
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What is Postbox?
Postbox is an email application that helps you organize your work life and get stuff done.
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.
- 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 information
Developed by
Postbox, Inc. Licensing
Proprietary and Commercial product.Pricing
One time purchase that costs $49, and / or subscription that costs $3 per month.Rating
Average rating of 3.2Alternatives
60 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
A great email client that was killed by eM Client, and in return they gave us a subpar transfer offer not even as good as their normal black Friday deal.
The irony is that I would have rather moved to eM Client instead of thunderbird when PostBox died, but this scummy move has convinced me to move to Thunderbird. It took a while to setup since Thunderbird treats POP as a second class citizen, but it does use less ram and CPU time than PostBox.
I am still running v3.11 when it was $10 ... now $40 is a ripoff They have never had any support, no forum, no email support unless you were prepared to pay $10 for support. I have just tried to find the price on the Postbox website, but they are too ashamed to mention it unless you almost "buy"
I would be willing to pay $20 or $25 outright, as for updates I think the only updates Postbox have made are cosmetic.
Postbox GUI is light years ahead of TBird. On a laptop 15' monitor the Tbird "From", Description, Date fields are on one line, in pane #2 In Tbird we are stuck with dinosaur layout. Even Opera mail can compact the second pane.
My vague memory is that there was a TBird version where the pane #2 was "wrapped" There are still full TBird legacy lists available for both portable and installers.
emClient acquired Postbox. Will be discontinued end of 2024.
Almost 50$ for an email client? What do they even think the software is? The only unique feature of this software is having a nice, user friendly UI, other than that it's not comparable to thunderbird in terms of features. I would say this is good if you are recording a movie, and want to show off the email client, like in Superman vs Batman movie, diana's email client. Maybe it's also good for a modern office with all clean furniture, computers and all to blend in, but for personal usage it's not worth.
It was/is a fork of THUNDERBIRD. At $50 usd / user =PLUS= $10 usd to get eMail help ... is a bit rich a lot of extra bells and whistles ... when al I want is to send-get-read emails if an eMail is critical, no way I leave it in any mail handler
Wife still uses and old "Postbox" bugs and all. I cannot tempt her back to my TBird v52.52 that works perfectly and was /is free.
I think I tested all email applications the last 20 years. The best one I used was Pocomail, a really ergonomic application made for users. Sadly, it was abandoned.
So **Thunderbird **was second choice but after Pocomail, TB is like a tank, heavy, not convivial at all (and I used it many years). Postbox was an alternative but I was convinced only by the 6 version. The 7 version is really a dream to use. Clear interface, very smooth even with more than 6000 mails in database, nice themes, clear options and features you won’t need (templates for newsletters…) but who knows.
When I read or write a mail I need very clear an readable interface and Postbox is the best for this. I need clear listing, quick filtering, favorite mails at top of listing, quick answer, good management of attachments. All these are in Postbox (Gmail is a pain to use compare to Postbox). Database is compatible with TB so you may use tools conceived for TB (no problem with Mailstore)
Update 2021-02-03: I tried to report a problem that looks like a bug and support needs payment. Paying for reporting a bug is very dumb. I sent my message to features demand.
But perfection is not in this world. So the –
I think it’s the best mail application (for the moment) considering usability, very user friendly. I rarely met a problem, bug or needed to kill the application. Mail support was quick from the developpers (and free, I never paid for that) TB compatibility is a plus as you may migrate from one to the other without any problem. Too bad it’s so expensive.
Nice and clean alternative to Thunderbird.