Postbox Mail Specification

Email client	Postbox
Type	News client, Email client, feed reader
Developed By	Postbox
Operating Systems	OS X, Windows

What is Postbox mail client?

Postbox is a latest email client application that helps you manage your work life and get stuff done. Postbox has all the simplicity and elegance of apple mail. Easy to handle the most demanding workloads. It provides a several type features like instantly find the emails, contacts, attachments, links, images etc. It provide a chronological message views. It will automatically determine your connection settings for you. Postbox emails are available in several language such as English, French, Spanish(Spain), English (British), Swedish and Portuguese etc. The main advantage of Postbox emails is, it handled email confidently and quickly. Postbox is favorite email clients specially for Mac users. It also supports many great add-ons and extension that can make it even better. It is a cross platform and even though it’s powerful out of the box, user can easily add even more features with plug-ins and extensions. Postbox interface looks similar to Mozilla’s email client, but there are a few differences. In addition, it makes available unified folders that you can access to display emails from all or select account together. Postbox have lots of clever features like focus pane, gmail integration etc. It support threaded conversation, o all emails sharing the same subject can be grouped together making it easy to follow a lengthy conversation. It’s configuration is very simple. When you open the postbox mail, it will automatically ask your email ID when first launched, which is all it needs to configure itself automatically for most popular email services, such as Google mail. Postbox is very cheaper compared to Thunderbird. Postbox also provide an encryption facilities.

Operating System Supported

Windows Os
OS X

Postbox and Thunderbird

	Postbox	Thunderbird
Company	Postbox, Inc	Mozilla Foundation
Initial Release	-	2003
Latest stable Release Versions	v5	V45.4.0
Software License	Proprietary	Open source/free
Features	It have virtual folders It provide encryption facilities. Not server Spam filtering Local spam filtering PGP does not supports HTML support Phishing filtering	It have also virtual folders It also provide encryption facilities. Server spam filtering Also local spam filtering PGP supports HTML supports Phishing filtering
Authentication	SSL/TLS Regular Login SMTP NTLM	SSL/TLS SMTP Regular login MIDS APOP NTLM
Protocol	SMTP POP3 NNTP IMAP 4	SMTP IMAP4 MAPI POP3 LDAP v3 LDAP v2
Interface	It provide graphical user interface (GUI).	It also provide Graphical User Interface.
Platform Supported	Windows Mac	Windows Mac linux unix

Import Postbox email into WLM (windows live mail)

STEP 1: Firstly, download the extensions , then install the Import/Export Add-on.

STEP 2: Now, after installing the add-on go to tools>> Import Export Tools >> Import all EML files from a directory to and locate the folder containing your Windows Live Mail folders for importing.

STEP 3: The folders should get created in Postbox but it may take a little while for the add-on to move all of the messages into the folders depending on how many messages you have.

Sending and Receiving Postbox email failed- Due to several IMAP accounts settings

Below some given points to fixed this issue:-

STEP 1: Firstly Go into preferences>> Accounts>> Advanced and see the number of server connections.

STEP 2: Now, change the maximum number of server connection to cache.

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STEP 3: Restart Postbox.

Conclusion

In this article describe the concept What is Postbox mail. It is a desktop based email application. Postbox email application mostly used by Mac OS. Also describe the steps of importing message into WLM and IMAP account settings. Also discussed about Postbox and Thunderbird. I hope given information helpful for you.