Gmail, and email in general, takes up a big part of our
online experience. Whether it’s for personal or business needs, you’ve probably
written at least one email today (I would guess most of you have written much
more than that). Postbox is
an awesome email client (we’ve looked
at it more
than once before,
based on Mozilla Thunderbird but with so many goodies added you will hardly
recognize its heritage. Postbox is aimed at making it easy to switch over from
Gmail, but no matter what email service you currently use, there’s a lot to
like about this client.
Postbox is built for wide monitors, and uses a vertical
split view by default. On the left you can see a list of messages, each with a
sender and subject shown; the right side contains a view of the current
message, along with a “Quick reply” box which you can use to jot off a quick
answer and send it on its way without using the dedicated message window.
There’s a customizable Favorites bar at the top of the window, which means
you don’t have to have the folder view visible at all times (it’s hidden in the
screenshot above).
Another thing you can see above is that you can open
messages in tabs – a very handy feature for when you want to
reference a number of previous emails. Just like Gmail, Postbox supports
threaded conversations: Email threads are shown as one long thread, so you
don’t have to hunt through your inbox for individual messages about the same
subject.
The Focus Pane lets you slice and dice the currently
displayed folder in all sorts of ways: Want to show only messages with
attachments? A single click does the trick. Or maybe you just want to see
emails that arrived in the last few days? No problem. Filtering is basically
instant – much faster than custom searches on Gmail (which are already quite
fast).
Large attachments can make emails slow to download, and clog
up mailboxes. Even if you have gigabytes of space on your Gmail accounts,
emails with 15MB attachments do tend to add up. Postbox lets you mitigate this
by integrating with Dropbox: Once you switch on Dropbox integration, you can
just drag and drop files from your Dropbox folder into the message, and
Postbox will simply insert a link to the file into the email. It’s magic!
Postbox features many other features you may have come to
know and love via Gmail. Above is a screenshot of the window used to create a
new Canned Response, which you can then use to quickly reply to common types of
emails.
Postbox is an elegant email client, and goes a long way
towards making desktop-based email a fun, productive experience. If you’re
tired of email in the browser, or don’t like your current clunky client, this
is one you shouldn’t miss!
source: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/liberate-gmail-browser-dedicated-email-client-postbox-giveaway/
by Erez Zukerman
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