Email Client Postbox 2.0 for Mac

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Introduction :
The emerging e-mail client Postbox is his goal, a feature-rich alternative to Apple Mail to be newly released version 2.0 a little closer come with the. In addition to the already existing features (such as the tagging of e-mails or view the e-mail traffic as entertainment indicating a) offers better Postbox 2.0 Organization Tools. E-mails can now be shifted keyboard shortcuts alone, using Shift + R is similar to Google Mail from an e-mail out a quick answer to be written. Getting-Things-Done-friends can do "inbox e-mails directly to a task transform. In addition, there is a slightly outdated interface and better overall performance. Postbox 2 costs around 40 U.S. dollars, a 30-day trial version is available. Who can make do with fewer features, even the free version Postbox Express resort.

With Postbox is a new e-mail program for Mac and PC users at the start, with some innovative ideas which is preparing a real competition and Thunderbird to be for Mail.app.

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Postbox - on the Mac - is very fast when it comes to news of cataloging in the background to then quickly and thoughtfully to make them searchable. Tabs for finding attachments, images, links and contacts for finding fixes a very specific messages. The side bar of the program has also made it into itself. Here, for example, mail links, addresses and pictures of the contents of the drawn and clearly displayed. Views Conversation collect the mails from a conversation via Folder distributed clear. In addition, Postbox home of, the opportunity to sort mail by subject. Also on the distribution of content on Twitter & Co.

Postbox is based on Firefox (it uses its rendering engine "Gecko") and Thunderbird. The program automatically indexes all content, including attachments and photos. The same start-up of others, was founded by Scott MacGregor. MacGregor was one of two Mozilla-employees, the Thunderbird mail client developed the before the then-CEO Mitchell Baker pulled the plug of the project. Thunderbird was then the spin-off Mozilla Messaging released, MacGregor left Mozilla in autumn 2007. Postbox is currently in beta versions for Windows XP and Vista and for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 available. According to MacGregor, these are essentially an e-mail client with additional functions. "The goal is that people order more with the e-mail on their desktop can begin, "said MacGregor, and in particular highlighting the integrated indexing and search, and the" Compose Sidebar forth. Compose your content from the Sidebar as a search found attachments, photos or links directly with drag and drop in a new message to withdraw. "You can also browse attachments. Once you have found the desired, they can use this content in another message, or continue to use elsewhere," said MacGregor on. Postbox is to include "connector" is available to e-mail content using various online services from Facebook to Twitter to share.

Postbox Although based in large part on open source code from Mozilla, but at this time is not yet decided whether the program should be Open Source too. "We can not say yet," said MacGregor, pointing out that the self-financed company is still looking for the right business model. "We will use the beta phase to decide," said MacGregor. In addition to MacGregor Postbox are at issue also includes co-founder Sherman Dickman (Ex-director of product management for Mozilla Corporation.) and Seth Spitzer (former Firefoxdeveloper) of the party. A version 1.0 of Postbox is expected in the spring will be ready. A version for Linux is also in the works.

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Postbox is currently in a beta version for Windows and MacOS X are available. The developers use as the basis for the new mail client, the program code of Thunderbird. One of the developers of the way, is Postbox Scott MacGregor, who had previously worked for years in the development of Thunderbird and has turned postbox with a new project.

Compared to Thunderbird Added to this at Postbox many new features and enhancements designed to facilitate finding and organizing messages. Postbox to particular users who receive many emails, make life easier. Who Thunderbird already knows who gets along well after the first start of postbox immediately. The mail client has a powerful search that allows the retrieval of mail from multiple mail accounts away. Another special feature: If you type in the search box top right of a term and leave after this search, you can show by pressing Ctrl + Enter to preview the found messages. In the search field to find the menu items "Attachments", "Images", "Left" and "Contacts". After clicking on - for example - "Attachments" will open a new tab that lists all the attachments in the postbox in mail. Analog will be listed on request in a tab, all found in mail images, links and contact information.