Postbox has been acquired by eM Client
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Postbox has been acquired by eM Client
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Re: Postbox has been acquired by eM Client
#2the actual title on the link is "Postbox has been acquired by eM Client!" which is different enough to "After 16 years of development, Postbox Inc. is winding down its operations" that I think it should be changed.
Re: Postbox has been acquired by eM Client
#3I've been using Postbox for 4 1/2 years. It's good, but always had significant bugs (e.g. when it would grind to a halt while indexing emails). Once or twice a day I'd have to restart it so it would be useable.
I know nothing beyond the press release, but my guess is that there are fundamental problems with the codebase that they couldn't fix without putting a while lot of time into it, and they just couldn't justify the time.
Re: Postbox has been acquired by eM Client
#4the actual title on the link is "Postbox has been acquired by eM Client!" which is different enough to "After 16 years of development, Postbox Inc. is winding down its operations" that I think it should be changed.
Yes, but the current title is more accurate. "Postbox has been acquired" sounds like the purchaser will be continuing to sell and support Postbox. The reality is that eM Client paid for the list of Postbox users, and is hoping to convert them to using eM's clients; the Postbox software is going away ("winding down its operations").
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#5Very upsetting development. Not even a reasonable exit strategy and good deal for those needing to find a new home. 50% discount to exit to eM Client??? LOL, give me a break.
Re: Postbox has been acquired by eM Client
#6the actual title on the link is "Postbox has been acquired by eM Client!" which is different enough to "After 16 years of development, Postbox Inc. is winding down its operations" that I think it should be changed.
The only relevant sentence is the one where they announce that they're shutting down, though. They buried the lede as hard as they could. I think pulling the single sentence that summarizes the post, rather than the irrelevant "wonderful journey" title, is entirely reasonable.
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#7I think I bought Postbox years ago to support them and used them briefly, but wasn't enough at the time
I wish them the best, but I do wish they would have continued to innovate in this space.
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#8Someone ping https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
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#9I thought postbox sounded familiar and I searched my Gmail and realized I purchased the lifetime sub for 50$ in 2010. Crazy
Re: Postbox has been acquired by eM Client
#10the actual title on the link is "Postbox has been acquired by eM Client!" which is different enough to "After 16 years of development, Postbox Inc. is winding down its operations" that I think it should be changed.
why not both?
"Postbox is winding down its operations after being acquired by eM Client"