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News is coming in from all over the web about Google’s Gmail launching IMAP support for their email service.

What’s IMAP?

Gmail is the first major email service to support the IMAP protocol which is a good way to keep track of email in multiple ways. Every email that you send, receive or move into a different folder all remain on a server. This means you can use Outlook on your PC at work, OS X mail at home and Gmail on your mobile phone and all applications would stay in sync.

Boxbe for Gmail

We expect the Boxbe for Gmail service will continue to work as it currently does, even if you enable IMAP for Gmail. If you experience any service problems, please let us know.

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Thede Loder, Boxbe’s CEO, will be giving an overview of Boxbe at John Battelle and O’Reilly Media’s Web 2.0 Summit today in San Francisco.

He’ll be presenting during the “Edge Companies - Presentations from the Edge” workshop session today at 11:30-12:45. The purpose of the session is to introduce folks to up and coming companies such as ours.

If you are at the conference, stop by and say hi to Thede and let him know what you think about Boxbe.

It’s been a while since we’ve posted any news about other places here on the blog, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been watching. Here’s the latest and greatest from the world of email.

Happy 10th Birthday, Yahoo! Mail
We’ve had a great time working with the team down in Sunnyvale on the new Yahoo! Mail application and wish them the best on this momentous occasion. Congrats!

Yahoo Mail to block fake eBay and PayPal e-mail - CNET News.com
Good news for eBay and Paypal users, Yahoo! will be blocking spoofed emails from senders claiming to be Paypal and eBay. We have to applaud Yahoo! for taking steps to curb these phishing emails.

Mac e-mail showdown: Which program delivers? - Computerworld
Looking to switch email apps on the Mac? Or maybe coming from the PC world and wanted to know what your Mac options are? Computerworld takes a look at Mail.app, Thunderbird and Microsoft Entourage desktop mail applications for OSX.

Techies take on spam zombies -San Francisco Chronicle
“Computer scientists in Menlo Park are releasing a free diagnostic program today to help network administrators find PCs infected with an insidious new type of virus that has already tainted millions of computers.” Strangely, SFGate doesn’t link directly to the software page, but if you want to check it out, go to the BotHunter Free Internet Distribution Page.

Having squashed all the bugs and polished up its usability, we’ve almost completed the beta test of our service with Yahoo! Mail . Over the next several days, we’re rolling the service out to existing users and barring no difficulties, opening up the service for all to use.

Boxbe Waiting List

No need to come to the Boxbe website to view your waitlisted messages. We’ll move all your unwanted messages into a new folder in your existing Yahoo! Mail account.

Your Boxbe Waiting List folder will contain all the messages from guests you haven’t yet approved.

Sort messages easily

We’ve added the Boxbe junk score to the subject line of all messages in your Waiting List.

Sorting by subject will help you find messages that are less likely to be junk.

Approve Guests within Yahoo! Mail

If you decide a message isn’t junk, clicking the “Approve” link from within the message in the Wait List adds the sender to your Guest List and moves the message into your Yahoo! Mail inbox.

Automatically add new guests

Finally, when you send an email to a new friend, you have the option of adding them automatically to your Guest List. The idea here is that you don’t want people you’ve emailed to have take a test or pay a fee to email you back.

Launching ’soon’

We’re pretty excited about launching Boxbe for Yahoo! Mail to the world. Our integration into Yahoo! Mail will help a lot of users boil down their email to just those messages that matter to them most.

We’ll keep you posted here when we launch to everyone.