[abeiz]

Looks great! I'm always curious what it means when people say they've worked x years on something. Was this a full time project @ 40/h a week every week, or more of a few hours on the weekends, or maybe something in the middle?

[muszc-master]

Hello! It has been full-time for the last 2 years!

[yani]

Did someone review your code? 2 years working on your own sounds like a caveman.

[muszc-master]

Yes, I was basically a caveman, and I'm currently looking for more developers

[nhooyr]

Haha, that's awesome man!

[newscracker]

Please don’t take this negatively. The “bus factor” here is 1. That’d be a concern for many users (especially ones who have used corporate email systems and have higher expectations on the longevity of a client). More so when combined with the other feedback I gave on having export options for the mail to standard formats.

[_RedPanda]

This probably means that the software is not going to be free, right?

[discordance]

I hope it's paid. This guy deserves to get paid for his awesome work, and I will trust it more if I'm paying $.

[Boulth]

I agree! I'm frequently paying for software even if I won't use it after a year just to test how well it works. Unpaid is not sustainable. But having source code (Maybe GPL?) is also important.

[red_admiral]

If the choice is between paying with money and paying with my personal data, managing my e-mail is one of the things where I'm happy to pull out the credit card. (That's why my e-mail accounts are on places like fastmail instead of gmail.)

I get paid money for the software I develop too, after all.

[SyneRyder]

For some of us, email is so important that we are prepared to pay a LOT for a really great client. I'm currently paying around $150/year for Photoshop - email is more important to me than Photoshop. For the right program, I would happily pay $99 for a major release. I think that's what I used to pay for Eudora many years ago.

Postbox currently only charges $40 for a lifetime free-upgrades license. In my case, they are definitely leaving money on the table, I would've paid a lot more.

[SmellyGeekBoy]

Well I was having a good day until you had to go and remind me about the demise of Eudora... ;)

[dotancohen]

What features of Postbox do you use that are not available in Claws (or derivatives) or Thunderbird? Serious question, I've love a better email experience.

In any case Postbox is not available on Linux, but I'd still like to know.

[SyneRyder]

It's so long since I've switched that I'm not sure anymore, but Postbox tried to be more Mac-like and had native integration with macOS Contacts instead of separate address books. I think it had some filter rules Thunderbird didn't have, and faster indexed search.

But now, I use the keyboard driven Tagging & Quick Move features [1] a lot. They work a bit like Alfred [2]. To file a message in my Filtered folder, I type "v fil Enter" and by the time I've typed v, an Alfred-like window pops up that autocompletes the full folder names as I type - so by the time I get to 'fil', it's autocompleted to the right one and I can hit enter. Standard keyboard shortcuts too like j to junk, a to archive, etc. I'm sure Thunderbird also has these via extensions, but I like having it in the core product supported by the core developers.

There's a word count warning feature that I use a lot too, because I tend to type a lot. The word count turns red when I go over my suggested self-imposed limit, or you can set a timer for when you've been composing one email for too long.

EDIT: I saw you asked elsewhere about editing the From field, Postbox has a pulldown menu on each message you compose where you can choose from a list of profiles / aliases you create. Each can even have their own SMTP server details & default signatures & are separate from inbox accounts. You can switch signatures on individual messages too.

[1] https://www.postbox-inc.com/features

[2] https://www.alfredapp.com/

[progx]

No problem for paying a good mail-client. I use it every day and if it saves me time (e.g. conversiation view, or better search) i will pay for it.

Would be nice if a bigger company sponsors such a project, then a greater audience will use it and the Developer could concentrate on developing and not on selling.

[vijaybritto]

I hope you make it paid by freemium method!