Postbox email client acquired by eM Client

[sgtaylor5]

I was kind of surprised by this on the one hand, but on the other, they had stopped developing for many years. There are discounts available for people to move from Postbox to eM Client.

Postbox has been acquired by eM Client!

Postbox is the power email app for busy professionals, like you.

www.postbox-inc.com

It looks like the days of single purpose email clients are over, except for Apple Mail.

 

[rforno]

I used them for a few years but went back to Apple Mail (and then Mailmate) when their development slowed to a crawl several years ago. If memory serves, the program was mostly a pretty front-end for Thunderbird and was based on Thunderbird, or a fork of it ... which admittedly was a draw for me at the time. Alas ... another indie goes down.

I would sooner use a browser - or go back to pine - for email than pay a subscription for an email client!

 

[sgtaylor5]

They had two line message lists way before Thunderbird. That was the main selling point to me.

 

[alvindarkness]

I thought this news was pretty terrible as a recent postbox convert. And I really didn't like all the PR marketing spin from eM to make it seem as though it's a great thing for postbox users (it really isnt, selling postbox to a developer who would keep it going would've been better).

But in saying the above, has anyone here tried eM, and is it decent?

 

[sgtaylor5]

I thought this news was pretty terrible as a recent postbox convert. And I really didn't like all the PR marketing spin from eM to make it seem as though it's a great thing for postbox users (it really isnt, selling postbox to a developer who would keep it going would've been better).

But in saying the above, has anyone here tried eM, and is it decent?

The only two problems I see are: 1) eM Client isn't native, but it's built on Mono (.Net Framework for non-Microsoft operating systems) and 2) eM Client isn't just an email client; it's a communication hub supporting email, contacts, calendar, chat and online messaging (slack, teams, etc)

 

[ivanwi11iams]

Not really sure what eM Client offers, that the Outlook or Apple Mail client doesn't.

Merely a statement of sorts, not asking directly. I just watched a video on eM Client.

 

[zevrix]

eM Client doesn't have tabs. If you wish to have multiple mailboxes open, each must be open in a separate window. Such a nice vintage UI from the 1990s.