![]() Given the shelf life of prior version software generally, I know that ultimately I will need to find an alternative email client if this issue is not addressed or resolved or by the end of the year. However, I continued using Eudora, perhaps for another six months past its ending date for support so that could run Postbox and Eudora in tandem to make sure I was getting reliable results. I discovered Postbox as the closest email client to the client most of us used at the time when Eudora notified users they were closing down and the code was donated as open source. In my experience, they are the best pathways into the organization, and despite their warnings about dealing only with issues concerning v6, they do acknowledge and respond to queries and suggestions from current v5 users. If you do decide to alert your customers I recommend, they communicate with Postbox using two pathways - via the “support” panel on Postbox’s head page after sign-in as well as the “feature request” panel. ![]() Moreover, as my prior comment opaquely suggests, Postbox is not offering a solution to junk and spam nearly as powerful as SpamSieve, so is this a case of the technical group not listening to customer needs? By alerting customers, I trust you would not be abridging any contractural issue that may exist with the Postbox folks. Postbox, to my knowledge, has no user forum and keeps a tight lid on what they are encountering in the way of technical support, so unless it shows up in this forum, I would have no other insight as to how customers of your software that use Postbox are reacting. To be honest, I am surprised that I have not seen much feedback from the community thus far on this feature redaction. Maybe presumptuous on my part, but perhaps you will alert SpamSieve users on the Postbox platform regarding this issue. I perceive that no one on this forum is that illiterate about the steps that need to be taken to see this happen and that those steps will not take a lot of time and will inturn satisfy some (hopefully significant) number of Postbox users who depend on your software for junk and spam filtering. Personally, I am astounded that Postbox pulled this stunt, particularly with the flexibility that modern code permits. Michael - it seems to me that with sufficient communication from Postbox users that rely on SpamSieve, the priority for adding back in add-on’s to the updated code might rise to or near the top of the to be added technical features. Then it’s curious that, to my knowledge, Postbox hasn’t mentioned anything like that about replacing any add-ons. I consider this a downgrade, not an upgrade. I use Spam Sieve…will not upgrade until this addressed…free or not. Thanks very much for using Postbox and for your continued support. If you have ideas on the features Postbox should support, please tell us about them on our Feature Request page. But please note that we do not make announcements or commitments on future features until they’re ready to be tested in a public BETA release. Will the functionality of your favorite add-on be rolled into Postbox? Very possible, because after all, we want to make Postbox the very best it can be. ![]() We understand this will be disappointing for many, but we cannot maintain add-ons compatibility over the long-term if they are not supported by underlying development platform. have been added to Postbox 6, including Signatures, Responses, and our Cloud File Sharing.ģrd party add-ons will no longer operate in Postbox 6. Since future versions of Postbox will no longer have the ability to run add-ons, we’ve discontinued support for them in Postbox 6.Īdd-ons developed by Postbox, Inc. Postbox is based on Mozilla code, and as of Firefox Quantum, XUL-based add-ons have been removed from the Mozilla platform. If you use the drone setup, you can train SpamSieve from within Postbox by moving messages into the special TrainSpam and TrainGood mailboxes, so you don’t actually have to interact with Apple Mail.Īll - here is Postbox’s reply to my email of today: If you want to use Postbox 6 today, and still get SpamSieve filtering, one option is to install SpamSieve for Apple Mail and let Mail run hidden in the background. (You could tell them if this is important to you.) Understandably, their initial focus is on the core of Postbox, which has just undergone a massive update. Of course, we are eager to help them do this with SpamSieve, but the timetable is up to them. Longer-term, they want to build the functionality from key add-ons directly into Postbox. I have been talking with the Postbox folks about this, and they are advising that in the short term customers who rely on add-ons should continue using Postbox 5. It’s not simply a matter of updating SpamSieve, since Postbox 6 has removed support for add-ons entirely. Any suggestions, work arounds, etc? If no, will SpamSieve be updated to support PostBox 6.0? There is no longer a way to add add-ons in PostBox.
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