Hands-on: Unibox is a 'people-centric' Mac email client
Nearly a year ago, Eightloops made a little bit of noise when it announced Unibox, promising “something new” for people yearning for an email client other than OS X’s built-in Mail.app. But after the end of 2012, the company went quiet, and followers voiced their frustration on the company’s Facebook page.
The silence is finally broken: Eightloops has announced sign-ups for a private beta of Unibox, which will distribute the app to a small number of people to test, with the hopes of releasing the finalized version in the Fall. Here’s a quick look at what that beta offers, with the caveat that, like all betas, this is a work in progress.
For people persons
Eightloops says on its website that Unibox has a “people-centric approach” to email. The idea is that, unlike OS X’s Mail, which focuses its message handling on the messages themselves, Unibox organizes its messages based your contacts.
After you launch Unibox and add your accounts, you’re greeted by the main user interface: The default view shows a list of people you’ve received email messages from; if they’re in your Contacts app and have a photo, Unibox uses that picture next to the contact name.
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