Postbox supports POP or IMAP email accounts as well as services like Yahoo!, Hotmail, iCloud, and more. A badge counter on the app's dock icon keeps track of incoming emails, and Growl can be used for notifications. It also detects appointment dates inside email messages and lets you add them to your Google calendar. It supports labels and archiving, two features commonly used by Gmail users. Postbox ($9.95)įor Gmail users, Postbox might be a good alternative. If you know of any other titles, please share them in the comments. Here is a short list of email clients (and some borderline cases) for OS X that you can check out I'll cover iOS options in a separate post. Thankfully, there are several alternatives worth mentioning that can take the place of Sparrow, especially for heavy Gmail users. Yes, Sparrow is useful in its current form, but even if the Mac client behaves well in OS X Mountain Lion and the iPhone client works in iOS 6, that won't necessarily hold up indefinitely - and if there's a feature you've been waiting for, it's unlikely to ever arrive post-acquisition. Many customers, like me, who enjoyed using the email client are now contemplating the task of finding an alternative. Sparrow announced late last week that the company had been acquired by Google that means that the Sparrow email clients have been put into maintenance mode, with no new features expected going forward.
