I have high hopes for Postbox a new eMail client, which is based on Mozilla’s Thunderbird. I never understood why Thunderbird has so many obvious flaws that makes it hard to use (and adopt for any user or company – although the software itself is free).

Postbox is basically Thunderbird done right. And that’s even worth paying for it – and available for Mac & PC. The recently released first version is very good, albeit not perfect. But the Postbox team has shown it understands what users need and how to improve the workflow (check the big feature list and great interface here). Excellent!

I am looking forward to the next versions – I am not jumping ship yet. Unless either Thunderbird or Postbox or any other client really combines the feature set of Outlook (especially tasks, calendar, address book and notes) into one package I am not switching. There is a reason why in the corporate world Outlook in combination with Exchange rules supreme – it’s simply a feature set the modern Office slave needs.

If Postbox succeeds in integrating all these features (a lot of work) PLUS a working Google Services integration (GMail, calendar, address book and Reader) than they have a killer. Because GMail clients too focused just on Google and Microsofts hates opening up.

So my dear Postbox team – if you can combine both worlds you deserve all my praise and some money. Such a products is much needed …