You can assign any email to a topic such as Work, Home, or Personal. Postbox even lets you assign “topics” to your emails, which are another layer of classification, distinct from labels. This collapsible pane lets you quickly slice and dice the current folder: Show only unread messages, show only messages that have attachments, only messages from today, yesterday, the past week, or the past month, and more.

Gmail lets you do this with blazing-fast searches and clever operators like “is:unread.” Postbox offers a more visual way, in the form of the Focus Pane. One of the challenges of managing email is quickly getting to the messages you care about within a cluttered folder. If you write even the occasional email in such a language, Postbox is out of the question. Another point that kept me from seriously using Postbox is the lack of support for RTL languages, such as Hebrew and Arabic. There is a way to change this, but only by manually editing the configuration (or switching to the Classic, horizontally-split, view). The “unread” marker is a small blue dot, quite elegant, but not as obvious as bold/non-bold text. Postbox makes it easy to individually collapse every pane, so that you can end up with a minimalistic list of conversations if you prefer.Īs much as Postbox strives to play nice with Gmail, some of the visual differences are disorienting: For example, the message list shows senders’ names in bold, even for messages you’ve already read.

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