OtherInbox, a Web mail system that dubbed itself as “the cure for email overload!” is a newly launched revolutionary free email product on the Web. Currently in private beta phase, and in order to use it, you’ll need to grasp a beta invite from them.
It seems that OtherInbox’s value has increased as a result of the frustration among users throughout the world concerning of the spam mails. In response to the spam mails, people closed their email addresses from one to another, but one thing for sure, this way does not really solve any problem. And this is OtherInbox, its value proposition and it hoping to do something entrepreneurial in order to protect email as a reliable and viable communication channel.
OtherInbox, its Web mail system is built on Ruby On Rails, is an Austin-based startup that founded by serial entrepreneur and email-marketing guru Joshua Baer in January this year. It was during the time that the tricks to add a plus “+” onto the end of any email address in Carnegie Mellon University, and any message in the email address in this manner would eventually be arrived to the Inbox helped to fuel OtherInbox’s entrepreneurial ambitions.
After you signing up for OtherInbox, you can create as many different mailboxes in your custom domain, i.e. username.otherinbox.com. For examples, Facebook activities for facebook@username.otherinbox.com, eBay for ebay@username.otherinbox.com, Amazon for amazon@username.otherinbox.com, etc. While it might take a great deal of time if you do it one by one in advance in an ordinary email system, but OtherInbox offered a feature that you can use it as you go as part of an effort to make it as ubiquitous as the Web. Any email belongs to different mailboxes of your OtherInbox account will then be sorted automatically and arrived into the folders respectively. And thus, if you find any spam mail, you probably will know which companies are selling out your contact info, you either can block the sender or delete the mailbox as one of your ultimate choices in the end. Meanwhile, for the unimportant mailbox, you can ignore all the posts inside the folder. In the meantime, OtherInbox gives you virtually unlimited number of Web addresses, in other words, an unlimited of folders they created for you.
For the beta users, OtherInbox might be served as the second-priority email system besides GMail, since the majority of the beta users are coming from GMail. According to OtherInbox, GMail is designed to handle conversations, OtherInbox is designed to handle commercial emails, receipts, shipping notices, promotions, newsletters, and social networking notifications. Now you probably aware of the significant usefulness and ease of provisioning of this OtherInbox.
On personal level, OtherInbox may be most useful if I want to receive the emails to be sent from a marketing firm, but want to safeguard against spammer, OtherInbox might meet my need at any point. First of all, if I sign-up by using my first-priority GMail, and I get spam unexpectedly, all the spam emails will be arrived to my Inbox and eventually filling-up all my email storage space without much I can do to prevent it. On the other hand, if I knew I’ll only want to see the first email they send to me, and none after that, this OtherInbox would filled up the gap. Secondly, I can sit comfortably if all the emails from the Web services I sign-up did not offer any unsubscribe page or link.
Overall, OtherInbox is a fully featured Web mail system. Other than delivered the anti-spam features and benefits listed in the above, it also offered the IMAP import, RSS feeds of all your unread messages, as well as the custom domain registration, i.e. use it with your own domain, without the limitations of storage space and cost of deployment.
Picture 1: OtherInbox Mailbox
Picture 2: OtherInbox “Use an Existing Domain Name”
