Postbox - an interesting email-client

Each year, TechCrunch is hosting a conference in which several dozens of the most interesting startups make presentations, talking about himself. In 2008, attention was drawn Postbox. Developers have shown a desktop email-client (and this at a time when a growing number of applications, there are analogues in the face of web services). February 8 Postbox emerged from the stage of closed beta, so now you can get acquainted themselves with this program.

Postbox, as the developers say, is made by Mozilla technology. One would expect some semblance ThunderBird, but in reality turned out original client with its own advantages and disadvantages.

To begin with, the interface Postbox honestly tried to do as much as possible "native", although certainly look attentive user will notice deviations from AHIG.

Messages, a list of contacts, attachments can be opened in separate tabs. The next time you start the program, the tabs are restored, although the session management has not yet provided.

Unlike the majority of postal workers, who used to address the organization model of the "Folder-Search" or "Folder-Search-tags" in Postbox chosen a different approach. You can sort messages into folders, assign them labels, but offered sorting on selected topics (Favorite Topics) as the main instrument. Messages themselves are grouped by discussions, almost like in Gmail.

Another interesting finding Postbox - a panel Inpector. If the sent message contains links, links, pictures, or other attachments, they appear in the right column.

Postbox supports popular web services. If in the email there is a link - you can save it in Del.icio.us, address - look at the map service, and a favorite piece of text can be sent to Twitter or FriendFeed.

In general, Postbox - interesting development. However, the cons enough. Spell check is carried out only English texts, as well as adding support for the Russian language is not clear. No plug-ins, and, apparently, will not. There import mail and address books, but seems to have no exports.

website Developer: Postbox
Price: is free