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All the add-on talk may be a major interest for some, or much ado about nothing, but the beta won't be free for much longer: Postbox plans to go premium in the fall of 2009. There's also support for the Provider for Google Calendar plug-in. There's heavy customization is limited, although Postbox does now have it's own slightly-buggy version of Thunderbird's Lightning calendar plug-in. Postbox gained Thunderbird's extensibility in beta 13, but it's currently limited. This can't be done without extra effort in Thunderbird. Called Topics, it automatically searches across folders for messages with the same tag. Two other innovations are worth highlighting: you can globally extract attachments, links, images, or contacts into a single tab, and there's a remix of Thunderbird's Labels feature. On the other hand, filters or rules you create on on your. When you’re dealing with two e-mail apps, just remember that each of these filter/rule systems work only within its program. Postbox will ask you to import e-mail, contacts, and other messaging data from Thunderbird, Outlook, Google, and Yahoo when it starts. An e-mail app such as Postbox or Apple Mail may offer its own filters, or rules, that are automated operations to be performed on incoming e-mails. Postbox is also obsessed with tabs, so that each new mail can open traditionally or in a tab of its own. From there, you can upload to Twitter, FriendFeed, MySpace, Delicious, and Google. Postbox is a useful email management tool which integrates multiple Gmail features and can be further improved by. Much as Songbird changes Firefox's tune for audiophiles, Postbox takes desktop e-mail hard toward Web 2.0, with fast links to upload contacts to Facebook and pictures to Picasa.Ĭlick on an e-mail, and the preview pane not only shows the text, but extracts all links, images, other attachments, and contacts into a Compose Sidebar for easy management. Make no mistake, Postbox introduces some innovations that Mozilla could learn from. Using Mozilla's own code, Postbox rivals Thunderbird for alternative desktop e-mail clients.
