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Overall Rating:

4.8

OtherInbox //

A Bouncer for Your Inbox

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

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Wouldn’t it be nice if you could screen the emails that show up in your inbox without relying on a clumsy spam filter? OtherInbox can help! This service analyzes your emails and puts them into folders based on where they are from. Emails from real live people go directly to your inbox.

Emails from online merchants, payment reminders, and social networking sites go into separate folders. Every day, you get an email summary showing what you received in each folder, so you can see if you need to respond to any of these emails or not.

OtherInbox is easy to sign up for, and once you’ve signed up, it does the email sorting for you. You can also get an “inbox analysis” showing how OtherInbox would organize your email, to help you decide if you really want to use it or not. In addition to a less-cluttered inbox, OtherInbox will also provide you with disposable email addresses to use when you order stuff online. Mail sent back to the disposable email address goes into its own special folder. If you use a different email address for each company you order from, you can catch spammers red-handed based on what email address the spam is being sent to. Then, simply dispose of that email address.

Later on this year, OtherInbox will also be able to set appointments for you based on payment reminders you receive in your email and keep track of online coupons. All in all, quite a useful tool!

Our Rating of OtherInbox

User Interface

4.5 stars

Usefulness

5 stars

Innovation

5 stars

Cost:

Free to $19.99/year

Overall Rating:

4.8

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