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Email, right guys? Some love it. Some hate it. Some are trying to replace it. But the fact is, we all use it. And since early 2013, Mailbox has been the fastest way to manage it, but it's only worked on iPhone and Android. Today, however, Mailbox for Mac is finally available in beta (direct link), and it offers a taste of how email might feel if it weren't bound by the age-old technologies underpinning it. All current Mailbox users will soon receive an email with a 'beta coin' that unlocks the app. (Everybody else will have to sign up for access on MailboxApp.com and wait a few weeks.)

The app still has its fair share of bugs, but since I began testing it a few weeks ago, I've only rarely returned to Gmail. In fact, it's almost as if Gmail doesn't exist at all.

More importantly, in actual usage the desktop and mobile apps in tandem make email easier to manage. For example, Mailbox for mobile now lets you 'snooze' emails back to your desktop. Upon returning to your office, these emails will be waiting right at the top of your inbox. The apps also lets you snooze multiple emails until next week, or until you get back from vacation. My inbox is consistently smaller than it's ever been, even if only because archiving an email takes one swipe instead of two clicks.

But I'll get to all that in a bit. First, a brief history lesson.

Back in 2011, Sparrow promised a simpler email experience free of buttons, drop-downs, toggles, settings, ribbons, and heavy interfaces that you didn't actually need. You were left with your email, for better or worse. But when Google acquired Sparrow, the company's apps fell into disrepair, leaving nothing to fill its shoes. Two years later, a few decent apps like Airmail, MailPilot, and Inky have cropped up, but none of them filled the spiritual void left by Sparrow. No app has as effortlessly balanced features with beautiful simplicity, rock-solid performance with speed — until now.

Mailbox for Mac is almost exactly like its iPhone and Android counterpart — you can swipe to archive emails, snooze messages for later, and even set up an 'auto-swipe' rule so all your soccer league emails get pushed to the weekend. It also has the same clean, white color palette. But most importantly, Mailbox for Mac is fast. Like, really fast. When you first sign in to the app, all your email loads in seconds.

Reconnect your Mac to the network, then restart your Mac while pressing and holding both the Option and D keys.When the Apple Hardware Test main screen appears, follow the onscreen instructions.If Apple Hardware Test detects a problem, an alert message appears. Make a note of the message to use if you need to call Apple Support. Do not try to use a disc or USB flash drive from another Mac model.Print these instructions: Click the Share button in the Help window, then choose Print.Disconnect all external devices except the keyboard, mouse, display, and speakers. Important: Follow these instructions only if your Mac came with a system software disc or USB flash drive.

This is pretty amazing, because desktop mail apps have traditionally been some of the most cumbersome pieces of consumer productivity software. This is in part because we all have so much email, and the protocol we use to send and receive it is so ancient. Mail for Mac, for example, not only loads messages slowly but also chooses to store gigabyte after gigabyte of cached email. So, Mailbox for Mac, like Mailbox for iPhone and Android, doesn't actually load your 'emails.' It loads tiny snippets of text copied from your email messages. This leaves the bulk of email — layer upon layer of indented, embedded replies, a digital onion that will make you cry — on Google's or Apple's server (Mailbox still only works with Gmail and iCloud, for now).

By abstracting email into simple 'messages,' Mailbox can check the unread status of 100 messages using just 200 bytes of data, says engineering lead Sean Beausoleil. Most mail apps, on the other hand, might spend 8K (40 times as much data) on the same request. 8K is a miniscule amount of data, but it adds up, says Beausoleil.

Mailbox's speed isn't only related to the size of its messages. The app maintains constant contact with Dropbox servers so new messages can be pushed to your inbox instantly. This also means that when you archive a message on your Mac, it's pulled from your phone less than a second later. In my tests, receiving new messages and archiving old ones on desktop was reflected on my phone almost instantaneously. The new 'snooze to desktop' feature also served up emails within a second. Compared to most mail apps, which require you to click a refresh button or wait a few minutes for the app to poll an email server, Mailbox feels lightning-fast. Even Gmail on the web feels slow by comparison.

What does the inbox of the future look like?

With the release of Mailbox for Mac also comes drafts, which has been sorely missing from Mailbox for iPhone and Android. But unlike most drafts implementations, which are handled by syncing messages to a drafts folder on an email server, Mailbox handles all your drafts on its own and stores them in Dropbox. This means that if you open another email client, your drafts won't be there, but it also means that Mailbox can sync your drafts between desktop and iPhone as if they were instant messages.

'Drafts in IMAP are a terribly broken paradigm,' says Beausoleil. 'The Mac Mail app saves a new document in drafts every second, so you get an incredibly high-volume way of saving drafts that takes up space, makes search sluggish, and then every device has to sync all those things. It's incredibly inefficient.' I tested out the feature by typing an email reply into Mailbox for Mac. By the time I glanced over to my phone, the draft had already appeared in my message list.

Drafts is one more way that Mailbox for Mac feels most like a 'messaging' client — the lifelong aspiration of Sparrow, with its bite-sized threaded messages and color-coded email recipients. With its swipe gestures for triaging messages, Mailbox sometimes even feels like a to-do app. The engine behind Mailbox, in fact, wasn't originally even built for emails. Before Gentry Underwood and company built Mailbox they built Orchestra, a to-do app hosted in the cloud. 'Mailbox was an iteration on Orchestra,' says Beausoleil. 'We didn't know it was going to be email — but when when we did know [our system] became an abstraction of tasks and emails. You have things, and these things have sub-things. In the world of Mailbox it's a thread that has emails, but it could also be a task that has notes.'

So, you have to trust Mailbox to communicate all these abstracted changes back to your actual email provider (as you have with previous versions of Mailbox), but in my tests, it's all gone down without a hitch. Since trying out the app several weeks ago, I've returned to Gmail on the web only to search for old items and contacts that Mailbox was taking too long to find. The beta app's search is buggy, to say the least, although Mailbox says that search is still an area of intense focus for the final stages of the beta. Besides the occasional search, Mailbox has replaced the entire front-end interface for how I interact with email. With Mailbox on both desktop and mobile, it's easy to forget that you're dealing with IMAP email at all.

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The app still has its fair share of bugs, but since I began testing it a few weeks ago, I've only rarely returned to Gmail. In fact, it's almost as if Gmail doesn't exist at all.

More importantly, in actual usage the desktop and mobile apps in tandem make email easier to manage. For example, Mailbox for mobile now lets you 'snooze' emails back to your desktop. Upon returning to your office, these emails will be waiting right at the top of your inbox. The apps also lets you snooze multiple emails until next week, or until you get back from vacation. My inbox is consistently smaller than it's ever been, even if only because archiving an email takes one swipe instead of two clicks.

But I'll get to all that in a bit. First, a brief history lesson.

Back in 2011, Sparrow promised a simpler email experience free of buttons, drop-downs, toggles, settings, ribbons, and heavy interfaces that you didn't actually need. You were left with your email, for better or worse. But when Google acquired Sparrow, the company's apps fell into disrepair, leaving nothing to fill its shoes. Two years later, a few decent apps like Airmail, MailPilot, and Inky have cropped up, but none of them filled the spiritual void left by Sparrow. No app has as effortlessly balanced features with beautiful simplicity, rock-solid performance with speed — until now.

Mailbox for Mac is almost exactly like its iPhone and Android counterpart — you can swipe to archive emails, snooze messages for later, and even set up an 'auto-swipe' rule so all your soccer league emails get pushed to the weekend. It also has the same clean, white color palette. But most importantly, Mailbox for Mac is fast. Like, really fast. When you first sign in to the app, all your email loads in seconds.

Reconnect your Mac to the network, then restart your Mac while pressing and holding both the Option and D keys.When the Apple Hardware Test main screen appears, follow the onscreen instructions.If Apple Hardware Test detects a problem, an alert message appears. Make a note of the message to use if you need to call Apple Support. Do not try to use a disc or USB flash drive from another Mac model.Print these instructions: Click the Share button in the Help window, then choose Print.Disconnect all external devices except the keyboard, mouse, display, and speakers. Important: Follow these instructions only if your Mac came with a system software disc or USB flash drive.

This is pretty amazing, because desktop mail apps have traditionally been some of the most cumbersome pieces of consumer productivity software. This is in part because we all have so much email, and the protocol we use to send and receive it is so ancient. Mail for Mac, for example, not only loads messages slowly but also chooses to store gigabyte after gigabyte of cached email. So, Mailbox for Mac, like Mailbox for iPhone and Android, doesn't actually load your 'emails.' It loads tiny snippets of text copied from your email messages. This leaves the bulk of email — layer upon layer of indented, embedded replies, a digital onion that will make you cry — on Google's or Apple's server (Mailbox still only works with Gmail and iCloud, for now).

By abstracting email into simple 'messages,' Mailbox can check the unread status of 100 messages using just 200 bytes of data, says engineering lead Sean Beausoleil. Most mail apps, on the other hand, might spend 8K (40 times as much data) on the same request. 8K is a miniscule amount of data, but it adds up, says Beausoleil.

Mailbox's speed isn't only related to the size of its messages. The app maintains constant contact with Dropbox servers so new messages can be pushed to your inbox instantly. This also means that when you archive a message on your Mac, it's pulled from your phone less than a second later. In my tests, receiving new messages and archiving old ones on desktop was reflected on my phone almost instantaneously. The new 'snooze to desktop' feature also served up emails within a second. Compared to most mail apps, which require you to click a refresh button or wait a few minutes for the app to poll an email server, Mailbox feels lightning-fast. Even Gmail on the web feels slow by comparison.

What does the inbox of the future look like?

With the release of Mailbox for Mac also comes drafts, which has been sorely missing from Mailbox for iPhone and Android. But unlike most drafts implementations, which are handled by syncing messages to a drafts folder on an email server, Mailbox handles all your drafts on its own and stores them in Dropbox. This means that if you open another email client, your drafts won't be there, but it also means that Mailbox can sync your drafts between desktop and iPhone as if they were instant messages.

'Drafts in IMAP are a terribly broken paradigm,' says Beausoleil. 'The Mac Mail app saves a new document in drafts every second, so you get an incredibly high-volume way of saving drafts that takes up space, makes search sluggish, and then every device has to sync all those things. It's incredibly inefficient.' I tested out the feature by typing an email reply into Mailbox for Mac. By the time I glanced over to my phone, the draft had already appeared in my message list.

Drafts is one more way that Mailbox for Mac feels most like a 'messaging' client — the lifelong aspiration of Sparrow, with its bite-sized threaded messages and color-coded email recipients. With its swipe gestures for triaging messages, Mailbox sometimes even feels like a to-do app. The engine behind Mailbox, in fact, wasn't originally even built for emails. Before Gentry Underwood and company built Mailbox they built Orchestra, a to-do app hosted in the cloud. 'Mailbox was an iteration on Orchestra,' says Beausoleil. 'We didn't know it was going to be email — but when when we did know [our system] became an abstraction of tasks and emails. You have things, and these things have sub-things. In the world of Mailbox it's a thread that has emails, but it could also be a task that has notes.'

So, you have to trust Mailbox to communicate all these abstracted changes back to your actual email provider (as you have with previous versions of Mailbox), but in my tests, it's all gone down without a hitch. Since trying out the app several weeks ago, I've returned to Gmail on the web only to search for old items and contacts that Mailbox was taking too long to find. The beta app's search is buggy, to say the least, although Mailbox says that search is still an area of intense focus for the final stages of the beta. Besides the occasional search, Mailbox has replaced the entire front-end interface for how I interact with email. With Mailbox on both desktop and mobile, it's easy to forget that you're dealing with IMAP email at all.

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Yet, Mailbox is still very much only for a niche audience — people using Gmail and iCloud — in a world where so many businesses run on Exchange and require more advanced features. Only last week did Mailbox even add 'print' and 'report spam' functions to its app, at beta testers' requests. And the app still doesn't allow you to do things that have been possible for years in Google Apps and Outlook, like comparing calendars with a colleague to book meetings or flagging items for follow-up. Underwood admits, 'There are some an intensely challenging tradeoffs between creating a simple, idealized workflow and supporting all the different ways people work.'

It's no stretch to imagine Dropbox acquiring an app like Sunrise to build out email-based scheduling, a common use-case. After all, to Dropbox, Mailbox is the means to an end, one piece of a larger puzzle. 'What suite of tools would you want within an organization to get stuff done?' asks Underwood. 'You can't just answer it by where Mailbox is going, but [instead] by where Dropbox is going. We're spending a fair number of design cycles on the next generation of Mailbox and Dropbox, and how those things fit together.'

Mailbox still has plenty of work to do, even on the homefront. There are lots of bugs in the Mailbox for Mac beta, and there are still more email services to add like Exchange and Yahoo, which Underwood says his team is thinking about. But, much as Sparrow did before it, Mailbox is paving the way towards a future where email works faster, syncs instantly between all your devices, and just acts more like the other modern communication apps we use today. Even if Mailbox doesn't ever add Exchange, it will have influenced the designers who work on Outlook, and on any email app henceforth. This might be Sparrow's greatest legacy, that it challenged us to think of email in a different way. With its new Mac app, Mailbox has now picked up the torch.

Mailbox was a freewareemail management application for iOS and Android, developed by Orchestra, Inc. It drew the attention of numerous technology blogs for its usability and innovative features, such as swipe-based email sorting, snoozing and filtering.^[1][2] Weeks before its launch, a pre-registration period resulted in a waiting list of over 380,000 reservations.^[3][4] Upon its iOS launch on 7 February 2013, Mailbox became the second-most-downloaded free app in the App Store that day.^[5]

In March 2013, Orchestra was acquired by Dropbox.^[6][7][8] The rollout of Mailbox was sped up and the pre-registration period ended in April.^[9] In April 2014, Dropbox released Mailbox for Android and announced a public beta version for OS X,^[10][11] which was released in August.^[12]

In December 2015, Dropbox announced the discontinuation of Mailbox, saying that they were not able to 'fundamentally fix email' with it and that they rather focus on '[streamlining] the workflows that generate so much email'.^[13] It was ultimately discontinued on February 26, 2016, as announced earlier.

Features[edit]

Mailbox focused on emptying the user's inbox and favored using folders instead of leaving emails in the inbox. For instance, it incentivized the user with visual cues and gestures to organize emails based on priority and due date to empty to inbox.

Mailbox was limited to Gmail and iCloud accounts. It also supported Yahoo! Mail for three days.^[14] Setting up Mailbox required granting the company's servers access to the user's email account, either through APIs (Gmail) or direct access (iCloud). Mailbox's servers repeatedly queried the user's email account to provide push notifications and allowed the application to refresh its content without having to run in the background for prolonged periods.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Mailbox By Orchestra: The Best Email App We've Ever Used (Review)'. Cult of Mac. 2013-02-03. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
2. ^Inbox Unchained: Mailbox just fixed email on the iPhone. The Verge (2013-02-07). Retrieved on 2013-07-30.
3. ^'Mailbox CEO says insane 380K person wait list kept app from crashing today'. VentureBeat. 2013-02-04. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
4. ^Mailbox for iPhone suffers downtime even with slow rollout. The Verge (2013-02-14). Retrieved on 2013-07-30.
5. ^Seth Fiegerman (2013-01-22). 'Mailbox Email App Finally Released on iPhone (Sort Of)'. Mashable.com. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
6. ^Darrell Etherington (2013-03-15). 'Dropbox Buys Mailbox, All 13 Employees Joining And App Will Remain Separate'. TechCrunch. Retrieved 2013-03-15.
7. ^Todd Wasserman (2013-03-15). 'Dropbox Buys Mailbox'. Mashable. Retrieved 2013-03-15.
8. ^Jon Fingas (2013-03-15). 'Dropbox acquires Mailbox, teases an email and cloud collaboration'. Engadget. Retrieved 2013-03-15.
9. ^'Mailbox now available without the wait'. 2013-04-16. Retrieved 2013-05-15.
10. ^Brad Molen (2014-04-09). 'Dropbox brings the popular Mailbox email app to Android and desktop'. Engadget. Retrieved 2014-04-10.
11. ^http://9to5mac.com/2014/04/09/mailbox-goes-beyond-ios-now-available-on-android-and-coming-soon-to-os-x/
12. ^Baldwin, Roberto (August 19, 2014). 'Mailbox for OS X Enters Public Beta'. The Next Web. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
13. ^'Saying Goodbye'. Mailbox. December 7, 2015. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
14. ^'Mailbox: now for iCloud and Yahoo Mail'. Retrieved 2014-06-02.

External links[edit]

• Official website

On My Mac Mailbox