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I do too and I don't know what I would replace it with if it becomes no longer viable. What other "serious" email clients are out there for Mac?

by jonah 11y ago

alta189 11y ago
Airmail[0] is my favorite Mac Email client, really wish it would add support for Android and Windows, but for now it works perfectly on my Mac. [0]: http://airmailapp.com/ http://airmailapp.com/
criddell 11y ago
The last time I looked, the most interesting email clients were based on Thunderbird (I looked for Windows clients). Nothing was very compelling though. It feels like the future of email is either on crappy local clients or very good web clients. If you want something great that runs locally, there's nothing.
sethhochberg 11y ago
Postbox is a pretty great Thunderbird derivative. https://www.postbox-inc.com/ https://www.postbox-inc.com/ I love Airmail, but require something cross-platform. Postbox isn't as pretty, but is cross platform, priced right, and has great default config out of the box.
- JohnTHaller 11y ago
  I'd recommend against PostBox. It's a Thunderbird derivative, so it has the same security vulnerabilities as Thunderbird does. But it's not updated regularly. The current build of PostBox was last updated in November 2015. It appears to bundle Gecko (Mozilla rendering engine) 7.0.1 which was a part of Firefox/Thunderbird 7 back in 2011. And the only version of Lightning (calendar and tasks) for PostBox is "experimental and unsupported" and was last updated in 2012. You're better served using Thunderbird and any extensions you'd like to tweak things a bit.
- warmwaffles 11y ago
  Postbox is not cross platform to Linux.
Anthony-G 11y ago
After a brief flirtation with Outlook Express when I got my first computer in the late 90s, I started using Netscape’s mail client. Over the years since then, I used Seamonkey and briefly played with Eudora before settling on Thunderbird when it came out. I’ve been a very happy user until a few months ago when I decided to try out Mutt, a command-line email client. It has every feature you could desire in a mail client and a correspondingly steep learning curve. It’s biggest strength is that it is terminal-based so it runs on all Unix-like platforms (including Cygwin on Windows) and requires very few system resources. It’s biggest weakness is that it runs in the terminal so you’re limited to whichever mono-spaced font your terminal application uses. Steve Losh has written a great HOWTO for OS X users (it’s also very helpful for users of other platforms) to get started: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/ http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/

I do too and I don't know what I would replace it with if it becomes no longer viable. What other "serious" email clients are out there for Mac?

by jonah 11y ago

I do too and I don't know what I would replace it with if it becomes no longer viable. What other "serious" email clients are out there for Mac?

alta189 11y ago

Airmail[0] is my favorite Mac Email client, really wish it would add support for Android and Windows, but for now it works perfectly on my Mac. [0]: http://airmailapp.com/ http://airmailapp.com/

criddell 11y ago

The last time I looked, the most interesting email clients were based on Thunderbird (I looked for Windows clients). Nothing was very compelling though. It feels like the future of email is either on crappy local clients or very good web clients. If you want something great that runs locally, there's nothing.

sethhochberg 11y ago

Postbox is a pretty great Thunderbird derivative. https://www.postbox-inc.com/ https://www.postbox-inc.com/ I love Airmail, but require something cross-platform. Postbox isn't as pretty, but is cross platform, priced right, and has great default config out of the box.

JohnTHaller 11y ago
I'd recommend against PostBox. It's a Thunderbird derivative, so it has the same security vulnerabilities as Thunderbird does. But it's not updated regularly. The current build of PostBox was last updated in November 2015. It appears to bundle Gecko (Mozilla rendering engine) 7.0.1 which was a part of Firefox/Thunderbird 7 back in 2011. And the only version of Lightning (calendar and tasks) for PostBox is "experimental and unsupported" and was last updated in 2012. You're better served using Thunderbird and any extensions you'd like to tweak things a bit.
warmwaffles 11y ago
Postbox is not cross platform to Linux.

Anthony-G 11y ago

After a brief flirtation with Outlook Express when I got my first computer in the late 90s, I started using Netscape’s mail client. Over the years since then, I used Seamonkey and briefly played with Eudora before settling on Thunderbird when it came out. I’ve been a very happy user until a few months ago when I decided to try out Mutt, a command-line email client. It has every feature you could desire in a mail client and a correspondingly steep learning curve. It’s biggest strength is that it is terminal-based so it runs on all Unix-like platforms (including Cygwin on Windows) and requires very few system resources. It’s biggest weakness is that it runs in the terminal so you’re limited to whichever mono-spaced font your terminal application uses. Steve Losh has written a great HOWTO for OS X users (it’s also very helpful for users of other platforms) to get started: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/ http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/the-homely-mutt/