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Re: Mailbox, from Dropbox (plus 1 GB of space to your Dropbox)

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Pretty cool. I wish it supported regular IMAP accounts. We could use a modern general mail client. Gmail is quite well-served already.

Definitely.

Mailbox's only distinguishing feature is task-based email. By making it GMail only, there's not really much to set it apart from the official task-based Gmail client (Inbox). Inbox works really well, so I'm not sure what the purpose of Mailbox is at this point.

General IMAP support would be a huge plus.

Re: Mailbox, from Dropbox (plus 1 GB of space to your Dropbox)

#13

I just don't want to take read/dealt-with emails out of my inbox. Which Mailbox can be configured to work with - only it shows 4,400 "unread" messages as a badge icon. The options available in-app are "always show 1," "show number of messages in inbox," and "never show any" I want to see the number of unread messages in the inbox only. Not the total number. Not an arbitrary number. Not zero. Is that too much to ask?…

I get the impression that the primary purpose of of Mailbox was always to provide a task-based interface to Gmail -- if you just want a traditional mail client, why wouldn't you just use the official GMail client?

Re: Mailbox, from Dropbox (plus 1 GB of space to your Dropbox)

#14
post #2

I can't help but think they have given up on the Mac client. It's been at version 0.3.14 for an unbelievably long amount of time--so long that I've just gone back to Mac Mail.

For the most part I haven't had many issues, I hope they haven't given up.

Re: Mailbox, from Dropbox (plus 1 GB of space to your Dropbox)

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post #4
post #2

I can't help but think they have given up on the Mac client. It's been at version 0.3.14 for an unbelievably long amount of time--so long that I've just gone back to Mac Mail.

Airmail 2 is pretty good. Kind of has some interesting bugs with the rules creator but it looks nice and functions well.

I've been using Airmail for about 3 months.

It's nice but has many frustrations in the UI - especially when dealing with large message threads.

Re: Mailbox, from Dropbox (plus 1 GB of space to your Dropbox)

#18
post #11
post #6

Pretty cool. I wish it supported regular IMAP accounts. We could use a modern general mail client. Gmail is quite well-served already.

Definitely. Mailbox's only distinguishing feature is task-based email. By making it GMail only, there's not really much to set it apart from the official task-based Gmail client (Inbox). Inbox works really well, so I'm not sure what the purpose of Mailbox is at this point. General IMAP support would be a huge plus.

AFAIK, Inbox still only supports @gmail.com addresses.

Re: Mailbox, from Dropbox (plus 1 GB of space to your Dropbox)

#19
post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Airmail 2 is pretty good. Kind of has some interesting bugs with the rules creator but it looks nice and functions well.

I've been using Airmail for about 3 months. It's nice but has many frustrations in the UI - especially when dealing with large message threads.

I have been using Airmail for about an year. It like it, and live with its issues such as slow startup (because I have many mailboxes), and irresponsive when network changes or when machine wakes from standby; I have to always force quit it.

Re: Mailbox, from Dropbox (plus 1 GB of space to your Dropbox)

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I just don't want to take read/dealt-with emails out of my inbox. Which Mailbox can be configured to work with - only it shows 4,400 "unread" messages as a badge icon. The options available in-app are "always show 1," "show number of messages in inbox," and "never show any" I want to see the number of unread messages in the inbox only. Not the total number. Not an arbitrary number. Not zero. Is that too much to ask?…

It's not like they're gone. They just in your archive, two taps away. It's a much more organized way to deal with email, at least for me.
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