If you were a keen Mailbox user on iOS and have been trying the beta version of Mailbox for Mac, you may want to hold off on updating to the latest version. Jumping straight from v0.3 to v0.7, TNW notes that the latest version no longer supports Mavericks – with many other users complaining of new bugs.
Users on Twitter and the Mailbox forum are complaining that the update crashes a lot, buttons are greyed out or emails aren’t showing correctly. Others simply don’t like the new design.
Think I’ll be sticking with Postbox for a while yet …
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Oh man what happened! It’s gone from being the most beautiful mail client ever… to the more dull. This really sucks.
It is fairly attractive although I think the slow update process has left it feeling a little dated. Every now and again I consider switching back to it but it has a few drawbacks for me: I can’t find a way to access anything that isn’t in my Inbox (or has been archived using the app) and the desktop client has no for matting support (I can’t underline, bold or italicize). Given who owns it it feels as if the app has been put on the slow track, not the fast one, and that concerns me that might be abandoned sooner rather than later and even as it is it feels incomplete to me.
Thanks for the warning! I’ll hold off on updating for now.
Has any app done more of a 180º than Mailbox? What started as one of the hottest, most desirable apps on iOS/Mac is now an ugly, buggy mess. Also, it seems once they were acquired by Dropbox, all their innovation went out the window. They “snooze” functions that they pioneered have been copied by most other email apps and left Mailbox in the dust. And they STILL don’t support Exchange email, which is a huge miss.
It went from 0.4.2, not 0.3, and they’ve added additional support for El Capitan so they are looking forward.
Give it a chance and you’ll see the design is an improvement from the previous all-white drab (which I liked originally, but the zero contrast took a toll on readability and scan-ability over time), and the bugs aren’t as many as people are saying. It’s still beta, and it’s a full rewrite, so give them some time to fix it and I’m sure they’ll do awesome.
“There aren’t as many bugs as people are saying”. Sure….if you are not in full screen mode. It is unusable in full screen mode. Once you go full screen, buttons for composing email, delete email, schedule emails disappear. The right swipe to delete email doesn’t work. The only thing you can do in full screen mode is to read your existing or new emails. Get out of the full scree mode and the traffic signal buttons to close, minimize and full screen app disappears. Left swipe to schedule email seems to work but delete doesn’t work.
I think the previous version was more stable than this new beta. Tired of everlasting beta of mailbox. I think its time to move on to other client.