Postbox

Nice e-mail client, what i especially like is the feature where you will see past replies on an e-mail to easily fetch older data... good thinking!

I switched from Apple Mail to Postbox a few months ago. I particularly need the ability to mark messages as "sticky" so they hang out at the top above new messages. It's my new to-do list. The search seems a bit slow, but usable, however. I'd like a better way to monitor activity too. Oh, and please connect better with Apple Address Book.

switched back to thunderbird, not worth 40$. like the postbox UI approach though

Postbox was one of my favorite mail apps when it was in beta (free). It is built on the Mozilla platform. It really makes managing your mailbox easy. It features a fast search for email message (comparable to outlook if your emails are indexed) and Images/Attachment viewers to quickly find and see images and attachments in your inbox. It has some innovative features for sending emails, such as Picasa integration and google maps locations. It looks great, with a great layout, cool attachment sidebar and gmail like "conversation" style messages. Also is great for managing contacts. There can be a minor learning curve when you start using it, but once you adjust it is great. The only real downside to it is the cost. At $40, I find the price a bit steep. When comparing to outlook and entourage, I suppose it is worth the cost.. However, when also taking into consideration free email clients, the improvements it makes just aren't worth the cost to me. While it has some great innovative features, they are too minor and too few to get me to shell out $40 for. That and I still find gmail's web client much better than any desktop application for gmail accounts.

I would have tried this, but noticed a 30 trial limit. Would be nice to see a good Thunderbird alternative, bringing gMail like features to the desktop. But it's not open source and it's not free so it's not a Thunderbird alternative. Shame... Let me know what you think of it, and whether it's worth the cost though? Can it really compete with other paid for products of the same ilk (i.e Outlook?)

My favorite email client. Feels better than Thunderbird and it remembers the passwords than Thunderbird keeps forgetting!

Really great e-mail client, i prefer it above thunderbird. But the overview pages are showing the e-mails on a long row, hitting the SORT bar's is a bit trick that way.... perhaps redesigning a bit?

Just the best email client for Windows

Way lighter than Outlook, much lighter than Thunderbird. But good enough to have a fun "You've Got Mail!" experience.

Fantastic email client! The conversation threading is spot on and the Facebook integration works very well at putting faces to names. With the add-on support they've recently implemented it can only get better really. Am hoping for better integration with Gmail in the future (more native handling of labels rather than just as folders, contact list sync etc.)

I can't wait for this to come out of Alpha! What a great start!

Would be the most promising mail app out there these days, if it just wasn't so damn slow. Keeps freezing the whole system. No way to work with.

Great adaptation of Mozilla's technology. It's a very nice easy to use interface with what I need to see in a message and extra features that seemed to be missing in Thunderbird. My client of choice.

Replaces my Thunderbird (it's based on Mozilla technology, btw ;) because of its usability: Actually handles my 42 accounts without any problem. What beats Thunderbird: conversation view.
But I do miss the calender tab.