Postbox declares war on email overload
I know I’m not the only one who has made my email account the center of my life - it’s where I store most of my documents, contacts, and pretty much everything else - but it’s still a big problem. There’s just too much stuff in my inbox, which means I waste lots of time digging through dozens of emails to find a specific link, an important document, or just figure out which messages are urgent. The founders of a new startup called Postbox say they have the solution; I’ve been playing with the software over the holidays, and they’re definitely on to something.
The team launched the product at the TechCrunch50 conference, and at the time, VentureBeat writer Chris Morrison wondered if Postbox could stand out against a long list of competiting desktop email software - Zimbra, Xoopit, Xobni, and more, not to mention more established products like Microsoft’s Outlook and Mozilla’s Thunderbird. At least the San Francisco startup has some experience in the field: Co-founder Scott MacGregor was on the team that created Thunderbird, and chief executive Sherman Dickman also worked at Mozilla. It’s still too early to say whether Postbox will take off, since the service just launched its invite-only beta test (you can get in line at the company website). But Postbox already tempted me away from Thunderbird, which I basically used as a Gmail backup, and it’s starting to chip away at my loyalty to Gmail itself.
