Postbox 1.0 beta 15

Postbox 1.0 beta 15 is a free program that helps you make the most of your email, offering powerful new ways to find, use, and view email messages and content, organize your work life, and get stuff done.

Postbox works behind the scenes to catalog everything in your email. We mean everything: every bit of text, every contact, address and link. Every picture, document and attachment. It's all in the catalog and it's all searchable.

 Major Features:

1. Search
   • Powerful Message Search - Postbox makes it easy to search for almost anything across all of your email accounts. Use the Search Panel to quickly search by message criteria, or for the power user, use search operators such "from:Mary" or "subject:vacation" directly within the search box. Postbox even understands search terms such as after "last Monday" or before "June 2008."
     
   • Search Tabs - Use Postbox’s Search Tabs to instantly find attachments, images, links, and contacts – without having to dig through messages to find what you need. The Action Bar at the bottom of each search tab lets you do useful things from your searches, like create a new message from a document you’ve found.
   • Compose Sidebar - Get fast access to your email content when you need it most - writing messages. A handy Compose Sidebar lets you find attachments, images, and links directly within a new message window.
     
   • Inspector Pane - Postbox looks for interesting content within each message, then highlights what it finds in the Inspector Pane. And if you’re looking at an entire conversation, Postbox summarizes everything that has been shared so far - all in one place.
   • Contacts Panel - The inline Contacts Panel provides fast access to address book data and a palette of useful searches and actions. Use the Contacts Panel to send an email, dial a phone number, initiate an IM chat, or lookup an address. You can even search for recent messages, attachments, images, or links from any contact, anytime
2. Message Viewing
   • Conversation Views - Postbox enables you to view and process messages by conversation. Simply select a summary row in your message list to see a roll-up of all messages within a conversation.
   • Tabbed Mail Browsing -  Postbox lets you view your message content in tabs - enabling you to create an efficient workspace for everything you’re working on. Open almost anything in a tab, including messages, folders, searches, or content such as attachments and images. You can quickly switch between tabs, or even reorder tabs to customize your view
   • Simplified Folder Views - Postbox lets you slice and dice your account and folder views in ways that reduce clutter and simplify your life. When you select an account, only the most relevant folders are displayed, which helps to minimize distractions from activity in other accounts.
     
3. Organization
   • Organize Messages and Content by Topics - Use Postbox to organize your messages by Topics. This allows you to focus your attention on one thing at a time, while minimizing interruptions from new messages outside of your current topic. To view messages by Topic, just select from your favorites in the Folder Pane. Combine Topics with Search Tabs to find attachments, images, links, or a list of contacts that relate to the Topic in view.
   • Quick Tagging - Assigning a Topic is easy. Type in any word or select from a list of your favorites. Unlike folders (that force you to make decisions on where to file), you can assign as many topics to a messages as you like.
     
4. Message Handling
   • Archive -  One click and the message is moved out of your way and into a dedicated Archive folder. You’ll still be able to find anything that you need by using Postbox’s powerful search features.
   • Editing - With Postbox, you can work with messages like you’ve always wanted. Use the Edit function to change the subject message, edit its content, or add notes. You can even create a copy of your changes if you want to keep the original message, and everything will be grouped and displayed together in one conversation
5. To-Dos
   • Postbox provides a simple and lightweight way to use email messages to manage and track To-Dos. Messages marked "To-Do" are conveniently pinned to the top of your message list, so important work items do not get pushed out of view.
     
   • Easily create new To-Dos and add them directly to your Inbox – no more emailing yourself notes! Use Postbox’s Edit feature to update the status of To-Dos, or focus your To-Do list by Topic.
6. Security
   • Anti-Phishing and Malware Services - Postbox helps protect you from viruses, spyware, trojan horses and more by checking URLs that are sent to you against a database of suspected phishing or malware sites. The database is automatically updated every 30 minutes, and if a potentially malicious URL is identified, a warning message will be prominently displayed.
   • Automatic Updates - Your security is important to us, so the Postbox application will keep itself up-to-date with the latest security and performance enhancements. The update process is automated.
   • Based on Mozilla® Technology - Postbox is based on Mozilla technology, and as part of the continuing commitment to keep you as secure as possible.

• Support an updated version of the Thunderbird calendaring plug-in Lightning
• Improve contact search, cross-account e-mail drag-and-drop,
• Improve message indexing, performance enhancements, and a crash reporter.