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OtherInbox – Email Management (video) (invites)
by Allen Stern on September 14th, 2008
One of the companies I met this past week was OtherInbox. OtherInbox is a mail management tool whereby it allows you to give out anything@domain.com and it automatically routes it to a newly-created mailbox. This allows you to give out macys@ for Macy’s, contest1@ for a contest and so on. It is one of the most useful tools I’ve seen in recent months. Check out reviews on CNET, Download Squad, Mashable and ReadWriteWeb.
Here’s my interview with Josh Baer, OtherInbox founder. If you’d like an invite, go to: http://beta.otherinbox.com/signup/centernetworks
LOL – this product is kind of oldschool because essentially it uses a catch-all account and it creates folders. Which means that if people start spamming me, they will just have to do, *randomstring*@user.otherinbox.com and I will have a shitload of folders to deal with?
I’m just wondering if they will still do SPAM checks on your domain, or something. Because SPAM won’t go away just because it’s in a folder. It will increase, because you open up your domain and make it more “accessible” (vulnerable) to spam.
What’s too bad is that they can’t push this technology back. I can totally see that it would be a true winner on top of a spam checker, just for the convenience it offers. But instead of Gmail or my own mailserver, I am supposed to use their service now. But who are they, and why would I trust them with my email?
Also, no imap, etc. support? That’s kind of weak. The interface seems pretty cool though. I only looked at it briefly and I liked that part a lot.
By the way, Allen – I think Smart folders in Apple Mail allow you to do something similar. Of course you will have to set them up and it’s not automatically, but it’s just a couple clicks, just like, “create filter/label from this message” in Gmail. I bet there’s even ways to automate that.
A lot of IMAP servers also support server side filtering so putting messages into a folder just takes a minute or two to create a folder and the rule. And I think this process could be optimized as well through some interface or an automatic rule. And all at the convenience of using your own infrastructure.
[...]A lot of IMAP servers also support server side filtering so putting messages into a folder just takes a minute or two to create a folder and the rule.[...]
Exactly. You can already do this in gmail (with a little extra work) by appending +some-string to your gmail user name (e.g. “my-name+amazon@gmail.com”) and then filtering on the string to apply a label and skip the inbox.
Thanks, Mark.
I didn’t know that Gmail supported that either. I forgot what it’s called, but many mailservers actually support that. Some even put messages into the correct folder, just by name that you add.
Sweet.