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In the same compose window, a sidebar on the left allows you drop contacts, attachments (found in the mail database) and images into your outgoing message.

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Once auto-completed from the OS X Address Book, contacts turn into a blue bubble that can bring up a contextual menu upon right-click – this is a welcome update as it’s the way contacts should always work on a Mac. The entire addressing widget has been rewritten so that the compose window can be adjusted to show or hide Cc, Bcc, Reply-To, etc. The old layout is still available, and can be changed from the View menu in the status bar.Īnother big change is the redesigned compose screen and addressing widget in Postbox 2.5: in what could be seen as some sort of similarity with iOS 5, email addresses can now be dragged into and out of the standard To, Cc and Bcc fields to adjust the settings of a message that needs to be sent. The message view is now more streamlined to accomodate a better layout and less clutter all around on the other hand, the obvious choice of implementing a widescreen layout ensures a finally-optimal experience on 15-inch and 17-inch MacBooks (let alone iMacs and Cinema Displays). However, I can say that whilst I’ve using the colored icons this evening, I can see how in the long term monochrome could be a better fit for users jumping onto a Lion upgrade.Īs far as other redesigned parts of the interface go, changes are welcome. I’ve been able to run the new Postbox only for a couple of hours, and I’m not sure which style I like better yet. The new UI has two sets of toolbar icons, a colored one to match the current style of Snow Leopard’s Aqua interface, and a set of monochromatic icons that follow the steps of recent iTunes updates and Lion Developer Previews.

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As previewed in our original blog post, the app comes with a refreshed interface on OS X, as well as full 64-bit support that should make for faster loading times, snappier message viewing and a general performance improvement.

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Postbox 2.5 is now available and it’s a free upgrade for existing 2.x customers. With a series of blog posts, the Postbox team had in fact already announced that the client would get an overall improved interface, new toolbar icons on the Mac, a completely re-imagined message view, and a vertical pane view to take advantage of widescreen monitors – admittedly one of the glaring omissions from the previous versions of Postbox. Earlier today, we published an article detailing some of the interface changes set to be introduced in Postbox 2.5, a major update for the popular alternative email application for Mac and Windows that, among other things, was teased by the developers as one of the biggest rewrites of the app to date.

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