Email App 'Mailbox' for Mac Enters Open Beta, Available to All Users

[rocknblogger]

I feel pretty much like you do. I use Mailmate and I think it's the best email client you can get. The search feature alone is worth the price of admission. He's got a 30 day free trial so give it a shot.

I all ready have the beta, but the same way I never got used to the iOS app I'm unable to get used to this one as well. I don't really like the whole "get done with your emails" thing and the "we use our own tag system instead of googles"

Sadly I think the superior mail client for the Mac is sparrow and I've been mad at Google a long time for buying the programmers and shutting it down. They should have brought it into google and continued to make it since they don't have their own client for Mac. It's by far the best Google client I have used. But I know it will end some day and the design all ready start to look stale when I upgrade to Yosemite... If it even works at all.

I would love to hear what people use.
Apples own mail client, how does that one work with multiple gmail accounts and also with contacts. I have no interest in merging all my gmail contacts with my phone book, will mail then be able to autocomplete addresses? And can I search through all my google emails without downloading all my emails?

Also would love if someone could elaborate on what exactly makes mailbox a more convenient way to read emails than sparrow.

Any input is appreciated!

Ps! Recently saw this sparrow for Yosemite. I can only wish that would happen, but sadly no
https://dribbble.com/shots/1589167-Sparrow-Yosemite

 

[iKen1]

Still have a Mac running ML. Logic works, Aperture works, Lr and Ps work.

Sometimes upgrading is a bag of hurt.

Using Aperture perfectly happily on Mavericks and Yosemite (beta). Have you rebuilt your librarys recently, that clears up a lot of compatibility issues. 100,000 photos in one of my libraries and climbing.

 

[Astro7x]

They could waste resources doing that or you could just update your computer.

Considering I have literally the oldest computer that is still compatible with compatible with Mavericks, I'd rather not take the performance hit to try out a mail program I may or may not like when everything else is working just fine.

 

[Peter Lacis]

Mailbox has never worked for me

I was part of the original beta program and have now installed this latest public beta. While I am able to load my business google apps account email, whenever I enter in the credentials for my personal GMAIL account I receive an error message about the IMAP folders not being available. I find this quite strange as they are working perfectly in all of the other mail clients that I use (e.g. Mail, Outlook, Mail of ios, etc). Not an awesome user experience and this has happened on multiple machines for me (using both Mavericks and Yosemite).

 

[MacTCE]

It's really, really not. At least not on the Mac.

It's actually kind of hideous on the Mac.

The Mac app is still in beta and was released to public two days ago. I think give it some time and I'm sure it'll have the same functionality and polish as the iOS version.

 

[wimbly]

I am actually interested in hearing your thoughts on what works better ... I grabbed it yesterday and after using the app on iPad and iPhone it is very natural and rounds up my iCloud and GMail accounts effeciently and keeps me focused on actually *doing something* with all of the crap that flows in every day.

Well, I guess I'm kind of biased against it because I work as a UI designer and I hate its UI on the Mac. So the app and I didn't get off to a good start. I find its design very self aware and almost pretentious (the window control buttons, in particular).

My main complaint with it is that it promises to make email quicker to get through and manage and I just don't think that's the case. I find the compose view pointlessly minimal and I often found myself looking for the correct controls when attempting to quickly respond to an email. Saying that, I do think it's a great app on the iPhone but Mailbox requires quite a buy in. They push you to try inbox zero and when you do you're kind of screwed if you move back to a normal email service because you have to constantly remember you archived your most of your 10,000 emails when you're searching in the future. Plus it creates its own folders in iCloud, which I hate from any email reader.

I guess I just have a bunch of little annoyances with it. I don't think it's a bad app but I certainly don't think it's inventive enough to warrant the absurd amount of praise it receives.

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The Mac app is still in beta and was released to public two days ago. I think give it some time and I'm sure it'll have the same functionality and polish as the iOS version.

I'll definitely give it a chance but I gotta say I'm not impressed with the design direction they took it in. I work as a UI designer myself and I have a very "if it's not broken, don't fix it" approach to design. In other words, if a design approach is an industry standard and it's easy to use and understand then don't try and reinvent the wheel unless you have a genuinely (r)evolutionary idea. I feel like they tried to reinvent the wheel a good few times with this app and I'm not sure it's been successful thus far. Hopefully it improves.

I wish they'd at least try to stick with some of the basic design language of OS X. Right now it sticks out like a sore thumb against the system apps.