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.

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.