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Postbox - 1.0 beta 13

Catalog your e-mail to organize and find items faster.

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Version 1.0 beta 13:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	1.0 beta 13
Release Date:	2009-06-29
License:	Beta
Downloads (version 1.0 beta 13):	498
Downloads (all versions):	5,975

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Product Description:

Postbox helps you make the most of your email, offering powerful new ways to find, use, and view email messages and content, organize your work life, and get stuff done. Postbox works behind the scenes to catalog everything in your email. We mean everything: every bit of text, every contact, address and link. Every picture, document and attachment. It's all in the catalog and it's all searchable.

Just click the Images tab to see a thumbnail gallery of every picture from every message, or the Attachments tab to browse through documents, files and more. And since Postbox does all of it's cataloging on your own computer, the privacy and confidentiality of your email information is preserved.

What's new in this version:

Version beta 13 supports add-ons and dictionaries, importing settings from Mail.app, saving multiple attachments at once, grabs Twitter avatars, incorporates Firefox 3.0.11 security updates, and other bug fixes.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.0 beta 13:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(5.0)	Support:	(4.3)
Ease of Use:	(4.7)	Quality / Stability:	(4.7)	Price:	(3.0)

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Could be a gem - Version: 1.0, 9/9/2009 11:34AM PST

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ylon

The developers really have a great idea here. The biggest problem is that the app does not appear to be built atop Cocoa, or at least they are not using the proper Cocoa text fields for Spelling and Grammar checking. I have a TREMENDOUS number of custom spellings in my dictionary due to my industry and unfortunately I will not be porting all of these spellings back over. It feels as though they are using Mozilla as a foundation for that and that is extremely unfortunate in this case.

If you hear this guys, please strongly reconsider using Cocoa fields for all text editing for deeper Mac OS X integration and much happier customers. I would probably be willing to be a slight amount of money for this app if they fixed that and cleaned up the interface slightly with Cocoa elements.

Promising -- pity about company culture - Version: 1.0 beta 15, 8/18/2009 01:39PM PST

(2 of 5 users found this comment useful)

ian.greig

Some good features -- tabs, searches, gmail-like thread displays. It's a good user experience, better than Mail BUT beware, the spam filtering is crude -- nowhere near as effective as Spamsieve. It is particularly poor at learning spam matches, even using the recommended routines

Also, the company culture is a bit nauseous, impersonal and hiding behind the world's worst feedback forum which isn't a proper forum at all -- you cannot see what is being discussed by others, merely search for issues. I dislike dealing with this company so much that I might go back to the imperfections of Mail which does at least handle spam well.

The advantage of small, independent developers is (usually) that they are accessible and talk to you. Not this lot.

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Great email app - Version: 1.0 beta 14, 7/28/2009 07:55AM PST

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sherman1

I've been watching and testing the betas for months. But I have now adopted Postbox as my primary email application. It has power, elegance, and a team of dedicated developers. A total winner!