Postbox logo (75 pix)Version 7.0 of Postbox has been released. Postbox is an email client for Windows and macOS , which has its origins in Mozilla’s Thunderbird. It has extensive options , such as a common inbox for various e-mail accounts, quick reply, signatures and opening e-mails in tabs. It also has an extensive contact manager and many search options. The following changes and improvements have been made in version 7.0:

Themes
Postbox now ships with 20 beautiful themes spread across light and dark modes. To select a new theme, click the Themes button in the toolbar or select a theme from the View> Theme menu.

The “Default” option will automatically switch between the original “Light” and “Dark” themes based upon the OS preference or dark mode state.

Clips
Clips let you quickly insert pre-formatted blocks or HTML into your messages. It works similarly to Responses and Signatures, but Clips have two additional capabilities:

Clips can insert CSS into the region of a message
A default Clip can be used per identity when new messages are composed
This means that you can now create sophisticated newsletters, brand templates, or stationary and use them as needed or by default per identity. Theoretically, any email template that you can create or find on the web can now be used in Postbox.

Like Signatures and Responses, we’ve included a suite or example Clips that you can use in your messages, including:

checked bullets
numbered bullets
buttons
callouts
description list
horizontal rules
image blocks
quotes
social follow blocks
text blocks
tables
To access Custom Clips, open the Compose window, make sure the Clips button is added to the Toolbar, press and hold the Clips button, then select Custom Clips from the menu.

Labs
Similar to add-ons, our Labs feature will allow for experimental 3rd party code to be used within Postbox.

The first Labs project will be OpenPGP support provided by a specially designed version of Enigmail for Postbox and can be enabled under the Tools menu (remember to add the appropriate buttons to the Compose window toolbar).

Unlike add-ons which can be arbitrarily installed, only a select number of Labs projects will be available for Postbox. Given that Labs projects contain 3rd party experimental code, they are not officially supported by Postbox, Inc.

If there is a 3rd party solution you would like to see in Postbox, contact the 3rd party developer directly . Please do not contact Postbox asking us for support code we do not develop, thanks!

Cloud File Sharing for Business
By popular demand, we’ve added two new services to our Cloud File Sharing feature:

Dropbox for Business
OneDrive for Business
New Swipe Gestures on macOS
We’ve created a new swipe mechanism on macOS that will provide better feedback for four commonly used actions:

1/2 swipe left = Archive
full swipe left = Reminder
1/2 swipe right = Junk
full swipe right = Delete
The swipe actions work on a “swipe-n-hold” basis. Swipe until the desired action is displayed, hold, then let go the swipe action “activates.” This usage pattern was designed to prevent accidental swipes from performing an action.

Most importantly, swipe actions can be performed on multiple messages at once!

Currently, this feature is available on macOS only.

Quick Copy
This works similarly to Quick Move but copies the message to the desired folder instead of moving it. The keyboard shortcut “c” will bring up the Quick Bar, and from there you can type the name of the folder you wish to copy the message to.

Gmail Labeling Mechanism
We’ve created a new mechanism for Gmail labeling that mirrors the actions used for Quick Move, Quick Switch, and Quick Copy. Type the “l” key to bring up the Quick Bar, then autocomplete against the desired label name.

Gmail labeling works similarly to Topic assignment in the Quick Bar, and you can now assign multiple labels at once.

Highlight & Strikethrough in Compose
The compose formatting toolbar now supports text string and highlighting.

New Filter Actions
We’ve added three more filter actions:

Add Prefix to Subject
Add Suffix to Subject
Add Sender to Address List
Other Improvements
Improved Gravatar Support
Date Pickers in the Search Bar
Alphabetical sorting or Topics in the editor panel
vCards can now be imported to the Address Book by double-clicking on them
Improved styling for vCard display
Improved status messages in the preview pane
Added option and set default to limit Conversation View to messages in the Inbox, Sent, and Archive folders in Preferences | Options> Display> Conversations
Added Quick Post actions to the Quick Bar with the keyboard shortcut “q”
Multiple selected messages now display a message count in the preview area
Added OAuth2 (Yahoo) to the account settings page
Implemented preference to hide / show signatures in conversation view
Improved the options for remote image loading
Improved icon display when using different resolutions on Windows
Implemented TCP keepalive option to improve connections
Added preference to MIME encoder 8-bit headers to fix Yahoo character and question mark issues
Changes in Behavior
Removed the default preference for composition background color
Changed font sizes from points to pixels in the compose window, which may require you to change your default composition size
Increased line-height for composition and display
Changed delete behavior for Google accounts to better mirror what Gmail does on the web
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue that could cause URLs with line breaks in them to not open in a browser
Fixed an issue that could cause messages to not be Marked as Read after deleting when the Preview Pane is closed
Fixed an issue that could prevent child messages from being selected when the message preview pane is closed
Fixed an issue when contextual-clicking non-selected messages and performing actions, the selector didn’t return to the previously selected message
Fixed an issue when contextual-clicking non-selected messages and performing actions, the action would have been performed on the previously selected message
Fixed an issue when the default send server was not being respected when clicking on an email address in the contact card
Fixed an issue when using arrow keys to select contacts in the addressing auto-complete widget
Fixed an issue that could cause sort order to get reset after a file or image search
Fixed an issue that could cause the Task Bar icon to reset during updates on Windows
Fixed an issue that could cause duplicate .ics file icons to display
Fixed an issue with the Account Wizard where ymail.com accounts were not recognized as Yahoo accounts
Fixed an issue that wouldn’t allow multiple messages to be set as Reminder at once
Fixed an issue with addressing messages from the Compose Sidebar recent contacts list
Fixed an issue where image attributes were not preserved when selecting a different image during message composition
Fixed an issue to prevent files stored in the clipboard to be added during a drag and drop action in the Compose window
Fixed a crash that could occur when parsing attachments
Fixed an issue with scam detection connectivity
Fixed an issue that caused excessive CPU while Postbox was at rest and not actively indexing
Fixed an issue that could cause read receipts to not display
Fixed an issue that could prevent attachments from displaying
Fixed a regression that prevented Spotlight from indexing messages on macOS
Fixed an issue where selected attachments in compose would not deselect when clicking in the message body
Fixed an issue where messages forwarded as attachment contains the wrong display name
Fixed an issue that would prevent addressing autocomplete if Gravatar was turned off
Fixed an issue that caused avatars to duplicate in the Compose Sidebar if Gravatar was turned off

Version number 7.0
Release Status Final
Operating systems Windows 7, macOS, Windows 8, Windows 10
Website
Postbox Inc.
Download
https://www.postbox-inc.com/download
File sizes 45.40 MB – 58.60 MB
License type Shareware