Mailbox 4 Adds Quick Actions, Advanced Filtering Options, and More
Windows / OS X: Postbox, one of our favorite email clients, has received a huge update today with a lot of features. Mailbox 4 includes new quick actions that allow you to insert standard responses or signatures with a single key press, a new focus view with one-click filters to organize your mailbox, code view, and more.
The mailbox is a bit late with the update – the last major improvement was a few years ago , so today’s news is welcome. Postbox’s new focus bar is full of one-click ways to organize your inbox, including buttons to simply display messages that have not been read, have attachments that have not been replied to, are just for you, are social messages (from Facebook, Twitter, or others ), subscriptions and more. You can even filter directly by date and only show messages received today, yesterday, last week, or from your favorite contacts (all you have to do is drag and drop the name to the favorites section to generate a filter for them).
Likewise, the new Quick Action Bar is a bit like Spotlight or Launchy, just for the mailbox. One keyboard shortcut brings up a kind of “launcher” text box that you can enter to quickly insert standard replies into messages, other saved snippets of text, and signatures you’ve created and saved. The latest version also expands on the already excellent Postbox cloud storage support and adds Box and OneDrive to current support for Dropbox and others. For those of us using a mailbox with multiple accounts, it will even warn us now if we send an email to someone from the wrong address (if, for example, I start emailing my Lifehacker colleagues from my personal address, he will warn me), or if I groped for someone’s domain and, for example, try to send him an email on .net and not on .com.
These are just big updates. There is more, like a code view that allows you to see the HTML of yours and any other email you have, a smarter compose sidebar to help you with relevant addresses, images, and whatever else you are. you might want to include in your post, quick unsubscribe links to help you get out of mailing lists, and more. Even current features like tabbed workspaces for accounts, file and image search, and quick replies are still there, just updated to be a little faster and smoother. For loading, the interface has been updated – and while there is nothing dramatic about it, even minor changes help the application look more modern and fresh compared to its old appearance.
Mailbox 4 is available now and will set you back $ 15. If you purchased Postbox on or after November 20, 2014, you will receive the update for free. If your license is older than this, you need to give up the full $ 15. We talked about some reasons why you might need an email client for desktop before, and that , any clients for desktop PCs work better than the web-based email in the past, but in the end you have to decide if it is worth the money for the way you work. You can pick it up and learn more about today’s update from the link below.