New free lightweight e-mail from Postbox

Postbox is a solid, $40 e-mail client that offers a wide range of search and organization options on top of a Mozilla-Thunderbird-derived foundation. The app offers a 30-day trial to take it out for a spin, but it’d be nice to have something that gave a feel for it without the pressure of a time-limited trial breathing down your wallet. That’s what its new, blue cousin is for.

 

Postbox Express is a lightweight, free application with all the basics of Postbox. It has the very same conversation view to get a better look at an e-mail chain without the baggage of redundant timestamps and indentation. Granular search options allow you to search before and after specific times and dates. Postbox Express also searches each link in every email you receive for phishing scams, checking against a directory of suspicious sites that it updates every thirty minutes. The app also boasts the tight Mac OS X integration and tabbed e-mail features that put Postbox on the map.

 

Alas, all this comes at the expense of Postbox’s more heavy-duty features. Chief among them, an entire pane that granted the ability to search from a database of all downloads, images, URLs, and contacts; the ability to create and manage to-dos; most of Postbox’s preview modes; and the entire directory of foreign language packs and add-ons. That last one in particular gives Thunderbird 3 a clear advantage in extensibility over Postbox Express.

 

Fortunately, Postbox Express is free. The only additional cost to you is some minor pestering on the start page to inform you of a few things that the full version has to offer. No Growl popup abuse, no commitments, and no annoying flashing anything.

 

Postbox Express requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later, and requires at least a G4 or Intel processor and 1 GB of RAM.

 

 

Would you recommend this article?

Share

Thanks for taking the time to let us know what you think of this article!
We'd love to hear your opinion about this or any other story you read in our publication.


Jim Love, Chief Content Officer, IT World Canada

Featured Download

Featured Articles

Cybersecurity in 2024: Priorities and challenges for Canadian organizations 

By Derek Manky As predictions for 2024 point to the continued expansion...

Survey shows generative AI is a top priority for Canadian corporate leaders.

Leaders are devoting significant budget to generative AI for 2024 Canadian corporate...

Related Tech News

Tech Jobs

Our experienced team of journalists and bloggers bring you engaging in-depth interviews, videos and content targeted to IT professionals and line-of-business executives.

Tech Companies Hiring Right Now