Every now and then, a fun project falls in your lap and last fall, I had the pleasure of shooting a promo video for the email client I use, Postbox. They ended up shooting the entire thing on-site in my office and talking shop with the Postbox Founder and VP of Product Management, Sherman Dickman, was as much fun as shooting the footage.
The filmmaker was Brian Artka from Size43 Creative; we examined some of his work in using storytelling to make better connections in an article from February, 2016.
Postbox describes itself as being “built for heavy email users” and they aren’t kidding. I can certainly confirm that I continue to use Postbox as my local email client and am a very satisfied user. If you are a former or current Thunderbird user, this should be of particular interest as you’ll find it to be a big step up in performance and reliability.
As someone who has tried more than a dozen email programs and regularly receives hundreds of messages a day, I can say with all confidence that this one stands head and shoulders above the crowd. I can’t imagine what my workday would be like without it.
Postbox recently updated their sales site to include all of the new features in their latest release (Postbox 5) and you can watch all of the promo videos they created at the Postbox Buzz section toward the bottom of the homepage.
Or if you just want to get straight to the video, here it is right from the Vimeo source.
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Drew, in light of the recent Yahoo breach announcement, do you recommend a certain email provider for users that not “heavy” users? Concerned about security, mostly.
Good question and it brings up an opportunity to discuss a crucial element that is often confused in that an email provider and an email client are mutually exclusive pieces of the overall email service puzzle.
A client is the software used to send and receive messages from the provider. The provider is the one doing the sending and receiving.
In the case of Yahoo, they serve as both the provider and client for many users who access their email through the browser based webmail client or one of their mobile platform specific clients.
So in the case of the recent Yahoo breech you referenced, your email client won’t really have any impact as the provider was the target of malicious activity.
In this instance, you can certainly migrate to another provider and there are those who specialize in providing highly secure accounts. Just be ready to pay for the piece of mind (a negative byproduct of people being used to receiving email as a “free” service from providers).
Having said all of that, all email providers are at risk to hackers so there are no perfect solutions there. So no, there aren’t any email providers I can recommend but I do encourage others that if they wish to use a free email provider, consider Google (gmail).
Otherwise, there are a number of reliable providers with good track records for providing email transmission encryption (which is still different than the actual server security). ProtonMail, Tutanota, and Countermail are popular providers with a number of online reviews (although I have never used their service so I can’t offer any direct opinion).