2/2/2024 0 Comments Postbox review![]() ![]() Postbox supports conversations, which means that emails that belong to a conversation are displayed as one in the interface so that you can access the whole conversation at any time. The default layout displays three vertical panes (accounts and folders, list of emails of the selected account, the actual emails) which you can change to the classic layout instead which displays the accounts and folders as before, but divides emails and the actual contents horizontally instead. ![]() That's not a bad thing though, as it helps you concentrate on what is important - the emails. The design of Postbox looks clean and some what even say minimalistic. The All Accounts filter is available right from the start, and a right-click on it and the selection of "New account group" from the context menu allows you to add new groups that you can assign email accounts to. Postbox in addition to that makes available unified folders that you can access to display emails from all or select accounts together. In Thunderbird, you may have to scroll down as all inboxes, spam folders and sent folders of all accounts are displayed at once in the sidebar. To switch accounts, you simply click on one that is displayed there. Probably the most important one is that there is a new accounts listing on top of the mail folders in the left sidebar. The interface looks similar to Mozilla's email client, but there are a few differences that you will spot right away. For others, you may need to integrate them manually into the program though. For high profile services such as Gmail it is a near automated process.Īll you have to do is enter your name, the email address and password to set up the account. If you are using web mail, you can add those using the new account wizard. Postbox can import email and other data from a variety of other desktop clients including Microsoft Outlook. It may take a while depending on how many emails need to be imported, but once it is done, you get access to all data directly in the new program. If you have been using Thunderbird before and decided to try out Postbox - a 30 day free trial is available - you will be pleased to note that you can import all your emails, accounts and other data to Postbox during first run. While Thunderbird users may be able to implement some of those features using extensions, it is fair to say that it is not possible to implement them all doing so. What you will notice is that Postbox has been heavily modified, in most parts for the better. ![]() That does not mean that the feature set is identical. Postbox is based on Thunderbird code, and the resemblance still shines through when you look at the main interface of the desktop email client. I think I switched to it from Opera Mail when it first came out, and have used it ever since. I have been using Thunderbird for a long time. That's one of the reasons why I prefer to use desktop applications instead of web apps. If they experience hardware or financial issues, or shut down, then you cannot access your data temporarily or in some cases permanently. What this means is that you depend on the company providing the service. Yahoo Mail for example was not reachable for select users in the past couple of days. While that may be comfortable in certain situations, say you need to access the data from a new computer or a different location, it does have implications as well. You can use one of the many file syncing services to host your files online, listen to music from everywhere, and even stream movies to your devices. While there have been online services before, like Gmail or Yahoo Mail for email, or file hosting services to host files online, it seems to me that many companies want you to move all of your files to the cloud. I have the feeling that many companies have been pushing towards web-only services in the past two or so years.
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