Postbox has been acquired by eM Client • Hacker News Board

Re: Postbox has been acquired by eM Client

#11

Post by DanHulton » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 3:50 AM UTC

Well, shit.

I don't think I've ever been "in love" with Postbox, but it's always done email reliably well that I never had to think about it. Plus, it never tried to be anything more than an email client - I never had to worry about it trying to be a "business workflow productivity tool" or anything, it just did email decently.

eM looks like exactly the kind of tool I _don't_ want.

It used to be more important to me that my email client also support Windows, but way less so now. (My Windows machine is just a gaming machine, and that's even only just until Windows 10 stops being actually usable for gaming.)

What's everyone favourite Mac "just an email client" email client?

Re: Postbox has been acquired by eM Client

#12

Post by mbreese » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 4:00 AM UTC

When looking at the eM Client home page (to see more information about who bought Postbox), I noticed something at the bottom of the page:

> See how eM Client compares to other products on SourceForge.net

Something about this doesn't seem right. It has been super rare for me to find links to SourceForge for years. There are a few outlier projects, but I just don't get it here... in this space... for a commercial program. I'm not saying anything about eM Client the program (I'm sure it's quite nice), but this link for comparisons seemed off to me.

Re: Postbox has been acquired by eM Client

#13

Post by selectodude » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 4:02 AM UTC

DanHulton wrote: post #11

Well, shit. I don't think I've ever been "in love" with Postbox, but it's always done email reliably well that I never had to think about it. Plus, it never tried to be anything more than an email client - I never had to worry about it trying to be a "business workflow productivity tool" or anything, it just did email decently. eM looks like exactly the kind of tool I _don't_ want. It used to be more important to me…

Apple Mail

Re: Postbox has been acquired by eM Client

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Post by not_your_vase » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 4:13 AM UTC

  > Rest assured that we’ll continue to provide support until December 22nd, 2024

I consider myself one of the most sarcastic jerks in the world, but I gotta salute these guys - I really LOL'd

Re: Postbox has been acquired by eM Client

#15

Post by ukuina » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 4:35 AM UTC

kalleboo wrote: post #8

Someone ping https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com

"Putting the ack! in acquihire!"

Re: Postbox has been acquired by eM Client

#16

Post by AequitasOmnibus » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 5:12 AM UTC

Active Postbox user here. If I'm being honest, it's mainly a nice skin over Thunderbird, and inertia kept me on it all these years. With the wind down, I'll likely switch over to Thunderbird full time. I wonder how many other current users will do the same.

Re: Postbox has been acquired by eM Client

#17

Post by _micheee » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 5:47 AM UTC

xeromal wrote: post #9

I thought postbox sounded familiar and I searched my Gmail and realized I purchased the lifetime sub for 50$ in 2010. Crazy

> Thank you for signing up for the Postbox Beta. We'll be sure to let you know when the Beta is ready.

Man, I’m getting old: just searched my mail and found this mail from… January 26 2009 :-)

I liked it, but it always felt like it “only” added some quality of life functions to Thunderbird.

Re: Postbox has been acquired by eM Client

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Post by DabeDotCom » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 5:58 AM UTC

If you're just gonna abandon the code, at least open source it...

(I've been unpacking and re-packaging the CSS in the "omni.ja" bundle for years to preserve the old look-and-feel; it'd be nice to have access to the rest of the code, as well for things I haven't been able to tweak.)

Re: Postbox has been acquired by eM Client

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Post by dmje » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 6:16 AM UTC

DanHulton wrote: post #11

Well, shit. I don't think I've ever been "in love" with Postbox, but it's always done email reliably well that I never had to think about it. Plus, it never tried to be anything more than an email client - I never had to worry about it trying to be a "business workflow productivity tool" or anything, it just did email decently. eM looks like exactly the kind of tool I _don't_ want. It used to be more important to me…

Spark. HN probably won't like it on account of HN reasons - but I've tried all the email clients over the years and this one is the one that has stuck the longest. Great on iOS too.

Re: Postbox has been acquired by eM Client

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Post by _coeus » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 6:29 AM UTC

AequitasOmnibus wrote: post #16

Active Postbox user here. If I'm being honest, it's mainly a nice skin over Thunderbird, and inertia kept me on it all these years. With the wind down, I'll likely switch over to Thunderbird full time. I wonder how many other current users will do the same.

I did exactly that - and after installing Thunderbird i'm now wondering why i hadn't sooner. Looking far slicker than I remember.