Polymail for Mac 1.01 is available now as a freeware download for Macs running OS X (no minimum version information has been given), while Polymail for iOS 1.21 is also available free for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users running iOS 8.2 or later.Opmerkingen: Excited at first and way too often frustrated with a bloated and unintuitive application. But given the app’s continual teething problems, it’s hopefully something that will wait until Polymail is firing on all cylinders and has run without major problems for a decent length of time. More ominously, the developers have also talked about unrolling a freemium version of the product when discussing future plans - how (if at all) it’ll effect existing functionality isn’t yet clear. There’s a vague promise about developing Windows and Android versions, too. All of this functionality can be bolted on to other clients (including web apps), but to have it all to hand, out of the box, is welcome.Īdditional mail provider support is promised, namely Yahoo, Microsoft Exchange and - crucially - IMAP, although given the current issues, they may be some time coming yet. It doesn’t end there: you can unsend emails immediately after sending them, plus opt out of newsletters via a prominently placed Unsubscribe button. Polymail also offers a tracked messages feature to allow you to see when someone has opened it, plus you can attach a reminder to follow up a sent email after a specified time too. You can also queue up messages to send later too. Other useful tools include a repeat of Mailbox’s Read Later option, allowing you to 'snooze' certain emails, to be reminded at a later date. iOS users can see this info by tapping on the contact’s name within the message body. This reveals useful info about that person, from their social handles (if known) to a record of previous conversations with you as well as any file attachments shared. Select a message and you’ll see a Contacts pane appear on the right-hand screen of the Mac. That said, there’s a distinct lack of text-formatting options and no option to set a custom font size for reading emails on the Mac, which makes Polymail hard to read on newer Retina displays.Īnother improvement is that Polymail is better integrated with those clients it does support - if you’re a Google Mail user, for example, then you can enable 'Gmail Categories' to browse your messages by whatever labels you’ve assigned to them. It’s relatively clean, intuitive and easy to navigate, with a consistent look and experience across mobile and desktop. In terms of presentation, Polymail reminds us of the late, lamented Mailbox, albeit with some handy extras. It won’t take long for this to disappear as your account is synced. Once set up, you’re whisked to your inbox where - for a brief moment - you see the 'Inbox Zero' screen, the nirvana for all email users. At time of writing both were "temporarily disabled" due to unspecified issues. Google works out of the box, while iCloud and Microsoft ( and Office 365) are also supported - technically. It’s here where Polymail’s major limitation comes to the fore, as right now it only supports a limited number of cloud-based accounts. Once signed up, it’s time to add your email accounts. These features - see below - help explain Polymail’s quite extensive demands for access to your accounts, including contacts and calendar.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |