Comments on: Postbox: An Alternative Email Client For Mac

By: Claire

Claire — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:27:33 +0000

kgro
If I didn’t like the way CNN reported the news, I WOULDN’T WATCH IT. I suggest you use the same notion to choose what you browse on the internet.

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Going postal — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:38:01 +0000

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By: luca Filigheddu

luca Filigheddu — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:38:44 +0000

Hey, you can use that signature! There are lots of tips to use it on Thunderbird, then Postbox will recognize it automatically.

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By: Jackson

Jackson — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:40:55 +0000

At which point does a review have to conform to the opinions of the public? The purpose of a software review is to test out the application and determine if it does what it sets out to do. My review serves as an introduction to those who didn’t know about Postbox and its features as well as its weaker points.

Can you please list the bogus reports or conspiracies I’m spreading? I’m very interested to find out what they are.

By: Jackson Chung

Jackson Chung — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:22:29 +0000

When I tried it, I could only attach text files. Maybe they implemented it finally. Thanks Travis

By: Dan Lovejoy

Dan Lovejoy — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:14:44 +0000

It’s amazing and quite sad what anonymity has done to our public discourse.

I have been using Postbox for a little more than a week and am moderately displeased with it, but I’m not sure I can live without its features. It’s quite slow to load messages, and the reading pane is actually quite un-Apple like. Text rendering, in my eyes, is quite ugly. (The Thunderbird engine is all too readily visible.) Conversation view is unintuitive – but perhaps that’s inevitable – I don’t think Google’s conversation view is very good either.

That said, it’s better than Entourage and its search and attachment features are way ahead of Mail. I suspect I’ll stick with it as they refine it. It’s a very good first iteration.

By: kgro

kgro — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:23:34 +0000

I disagree – this is a public commercial blog and with the status comes the responsibility. I don’t think you would enjoy much if CNN or BBC at some point would give bogus reports and say we are the channel and we do reports the way we see fit. This is the reason behind blogs’ lack of credibility – there is no consistency in objectiveness and professionalism. The stuff you are talking about is fit for personal blog.

Mind you, there are plenty of sites, that give pretty good idea about new products on the market. The biggest blog on everything Apple is TUAW, by the way.

Strange how many people have comfortably turned ignorance from a vice to an excuse.

By: Leigh McCulloch

Leigh McCulloch — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:27:52 +0000

The author reviewing the product is entitled to review it however he sees fit. This isn’t obviously a technical review where specs, performance, and functionality are drilled and detailed.

I enjoyed the review, and it was a good lead in to exploring the software myself. Had this review not existed, I wouldn’t have discovered the software.

By: kgro

kgro — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:14:05 +0000

Dude, you are giving the thumbs up to the review only because you just found out about the actual product. This is where you are missing the point. The purpose of a review is not an introduction, but the evaluation, assessment! In fact the word “review” itself kind of makes it obvious, that it is certainly not the first viewing.

By: Leigh McCulloch

Leigh McCulloch — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:49:25 +0000

Good review. I’m checking out this Postbox application now .

P.S. You guys who are complaining tonnes: seriously, grow up.

By: Travis Quinnelly

Travis Quinnelly — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:30:40 +0000

Jackson, I have to point out that it IS possible to embed a beautiful signature into Postbox.
From the time I could download the beta, I’ve noticed how much the backend (like you mentioned) was similar to Thunderbird. That said, if you go into Account Settings, the very first page of settings there is a box that says “Attach this Signature”. What I’ve done is to create a simple .html file that has my signature the way I want it to show up, and pointed to that file. Now all my emails have my wonderful html signature.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:17:04 +0000

Wow. You people are BRUTAL. Try a little civility.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:14:40 +0000

Mulder, do you know who you remind me of? Have you ever watched “The Big Bang Theory” that’s playing on CBS? You totally remind me of Sheldon! He also takes what everyone says literally.

By: Jackson

Jackson — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:11:03 +0000

kgro, thanks for pointing out my ignorance. Without people like you, I don’t think I can ever grow to be a better person.

I shall attempt to follow-up on the point which is even worth thinking about: I don’t understand your comments about the relationship between Gmail’s IMAP and Apple Mail. All I said was that Postbox was easier to set up comparatively. And I stand by it. Did I say that there wasn’t an automatic IMAP setup in Apple Mail?

By: kgro

kgro — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:13:28 +0000

>Before we begin, I should state for the record that the only email manager I’ve used is Apple Mail and I’m going to use that as the yardstick on which Postbox shall be judged.

since when the ignorance has been accepted as a judge?

>without further adieu

dude, “adieu” means “bye” in French! You are an ignorant chap, aren’t you…

>Actually, to be brutally honest, the interface does look a bit like Apple Mail.

does it now? What does look similar to Apple Mail to you? Is it the minimize button? Or the status bar? Or is it some other MacOS standard GUI element? Please, stop talking about things you have no clue about

Then there are contradictions about uselessness of the link and usefulness thereof; the announcement that tabs give “browser-y” feel to the client; again, the complete ignorance about the IMAP Gmail setup and why there is no automatic option in the Apple Mail (well, Sherlock, Gmail has introduced it’s IMAP after Apple Mail heavy update and before Postbox release) and other nonsense.

Shortly, a very poor review and the author shall not be allowed close to any publishing environments. It also seems, that the author should be banned from using email – you are one of those idiots, who bloat emails by stupid signatures, that are hard to read on mobile devices. Totally agree with Mr. Hunt above.

And now, without further ado … adieu!

By: Isacc Hunt

Isacc Hunt — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:16:35 +0000

Mulder, you sound like a complete asshole! I be you sit around all day playing with your cock and waiting for things to complain about! LMAO

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By: Mulder

Mulder — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:15:30 +0000

The idea that Postbox “fires up like a rocket” is deeply flawed. Launch times are dependent on the type and speed of the processor in your Mac, so unless you’re prepared to conduct tests using comparably equipped PPC and Intel-based Macs, your review is not worth anything.

It provides no objective or comparative information upon which to base any conclusions.

If you’re going to be engaging in this type of “review” you need to disclose all the details up-front before you tell us about any application, as well as doing the same tests on both types of Mac systems.