The program also recognizes and categorizes different kinds of messages, from daily deals to social media notices, in custom views that you can switch on or off in its settings.

(IMAP messages may take a while to show up, but they’ll get there eventually.) Thenceforth, when you log in on that computer or anywhere else, Inky will have all your mail waiting for you. This beautifully designed, free client stores your account information-but not your message-securely in the cloud.Īfter you create an Inky account, the program will quickly set up your IMAP- or POP-based mailboxes. If you need access to your different email accounts in one place, or if you need a consistent interface in a many locations, try But otherwise, anyone who has grown weary of Apple Mail’s limitations will find Postbox, at just $10, an inexpensive and impressive step up. Microsoft Office users, take note: Postbox does not support Exchange. If you have to send out a lot of form email messages, this feature could spare your hands and wrists some serious repetitive stress. And unique among the clients I’ve tested, Postbox lets you save precrafted email responses easily, and then deploy them with a few quick clicks.

Postbox’s designers have thoughtfully built in ways to tie the program to Gmail, Evernote, Dropbox, and even LinkedIn.

I liked its eye-pleasing interface, and especially its superb Inspector pane, which plucks links, dates, addresses, package tracking numbers, and more from the body of your message, and displays them for at-a-glance discovery. And it’s among the few non-Microsoft mail programs that support Exchange email.įrom its poise and polish, you’d never know that Postbox was built on Thunderbird’s framework. That said, Mail remains a dependable, pleasant workhorse of a client. And the VIP feature can do little that Smart Mailboxes and mailbox rules couldn’t do already. You can add people to or remove them from your roster of special senders only within individual messages, not from a message list itself.

The Lion upgrade sharpened Mail’s ability to find messages across multiple mailboxes, but Mountain Lion enhances its ability to find words and phrases within individual messages. Mail 6 sports a small handful of new features, and much of what it does offer owes more to features introduced in Mountain Lion OS X than to anything specific to Mail itself.īesides improving Safari’s ability to email webpages in various forms, and integrating Mountain Lion’s systemwide notification features, Mail 6 strengthens its predecessor’s already amped-up search powers.

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