So this is a new email client? - Paul Buchheit

Yep, looks gorgeous. - Aviv

It does look nice. A "photo view" was one of the things we always wanted to add to Gmail, but of course didn't :(. Email clients are a tough business though. I predict that there will never be another successful desktop client (other than future versions of Outlook of course). - Paul Buchheit

I guess it looks alright, but I'm wondering...where is the real innovation here? Looks a lot like a Xobni/Gmail mashup with a couple of other sparkly bits tossed in. Am I missing something? - abacab

It says the best way to learn more about Postbox is to try it out - but it doesn't give any option for doing so! Where's the download link? - Justin Long

Oh, duh, I see... it's not been released yet. But if that's the case, why does it suggest we need to try it out? :) - Justin Long

@Paul - how do you define successful? I got my parents to use Thunderbird, which I see as a success. Personally I use Kmail on Linux, and Apple's Mail. Kmail is my favorite of the two, because it is highly configurable. - Robert Felty

Everybody gets a nice photo view, regardless of mail client, if you send updates out via my site: http://ourdoings.com/ - Bruce Lewis via fftogo

Rob, by successful I meant large numbers (millions) of people using them. There will continue to be a large number of niche clients, and some people will keep using elm even though mutt is completely superior, but none of them will get large userbases. - Paul Buchheit

@paul - have you seen xoopit? - Alex Gawley

Just put my email in the beta signup to see more. - Stephan Miller via fftogo

paul - as someone mentioned, xoopit does a v cool image view (and much more) on top of Gmail. My company includes an image view (attachment explorer) as part of our ClearContext Personal product for Outlook users. - Deva Hazarika

i'm not sure if there will or won't be another successful desktop client, but if there is, it will come from getting traction on some other axis first, and then leveraging that success into an email client. hybrid clients like zimbra and online clients like zenbe show a hint at the future. - Deva Hazarika

Deva, you may be on to something. It worked for Gnus. I still read some of my mail in Gnus. - Bruce Lewis via fftogo