New Postbox tidies up for final release
As the social-networking e-mail client Postbox approaches its announced general release date at the beginning of September, the cross-platform program updates with what looks to be more a "tidying-up" release. Available for Windows and Mac, Postbox 1.0 beta 15 introduces a new version of the Thunderbird calendar plug-in Lightning, improved contact searching, and other performance tweaks--but not much else.
Installing Postbox may require a reboot.
(Credit: Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)Derived from Mozilla Thunderbird, Postbox beta 15 will also let you drag and drop e-mails from one account to another and introduces a crash reporter that had been strangely missing until now. Search queries that return no results will now suggest alternative search terms, and more plug-ins have been ported over from Thunderbird, including ThunderBrowse, Virtual Identities, and support for Mozilla-client profile rescuer MozBackup. Frustratingly, Postbox now requires a reboot to work--at least, it did on upgrading my installation from beta 14.
The full changelog can be read here.
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Thunderbirds design is almost from the middle ages and the search ability is too weak, useless for me. It's just to basic without the plugins.
If you try Postbox, I'm sure everyone will like it. It's just more than mailing, you get the feeling a team is working on it to improve the software with new features. That's a bit different compared to Thunderbirds team: sllooowww and only focused on Firefox.
And Windows live mail is just a complete joke. The only thing that can destroy a desktop mailclient is goolgle wave. I'm thrilled for the BETA
- by moshonis August 27, 2009 1:45 PM PDT
- ? use outlook express for ten years, it opens in seven eight seconds, does not have calendar, so what? its enough for me. ? erase almost all mails, dont need any search mearch function either. who needs them ? wonder? whats all this fuss for?
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