New Desktop Email Application

By Stephanie Jordan
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After being named to the TechCrunch50 in September 2008, the San Francisco-based start-up Postbox announced earlier this month its desktop email application that offers users ways to find, use, and view email messages and content.

Postbox works behind the scenes to catalog everything in email: every bit of text, every contact, address or link, every picture, document or attachment. The company says: “It’s all in the catalog and it’s all searchable. Users simply click the Images tab to see a thumbnail gallery of every picture from every message, or the Attachments tab to browse through documents, files and more.” All the cataloging is done on the user’s computer, preserving privacy and confidentiality.

“Most everyone working in email uses it as a personal database, whether as a filing system, catch-all, or to-do list; but email applications have not kept pace with how we really use mail,” says Scott MacGregor, co-founder of Postbox. “We built Postbox with special attention to the key areas where traditional email clients weren’t getting the job done. Now you can spend more time getting work done and less time hunting for content or contacts.”

Postbox is for Windows or Macintosh.

 

Published September 30, 2009