Boxbe for Outlook Public Beta
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Today, we’re announcing that our Boxbe for Outlook add-in is available to everyone for download. While it still has some rough edges, unlike a lot of other betas, we’ve been testing this add-in both internally and with a sizable number of beta testers for several months.
What is Boxbe for Outlook?
We’ve encapsulated all the functionality of the Boxbe website into an easy to use plugin for use with Microsoft Outlook.
Following is a little introduction to our latest product, Boxbe for Outlook.
Automatic Guest List Creation
The Boxbe for Outlook plugin looks through your list of contacts, past emails and email messages that you have sent to others, to create your Guest List quickly and get you started using Boxbe.
Once you have created your Guest List, email from people on your Guest List will go directly to your Inbox as they have before, while email from people that are not on your Guest List will go to your boxbe Waiting List folder.
Waiting List and Junk Ratings
If someone emails you that is not on your Guest List, that message is sent to your Waiting List folder and Boxbe determines how likely that message is to be spam.
Messages are rated on a scale from 1 to 10 on their likelihood that they are spam. Messages that score low are less likely to be spam and messages that score high are more likely to be spam.
Boxbe Junk Ratings quickly separate the good from the bad.
Fast Setup, Easy to Use
Depending on the size of your list of contacts and mailboxes, setup usually takes a couple of minutes. Once you are set up, adding new senders to your Guest List is a snap. We add a toolbar to Outlook that gives you quick access to the tools you’ll use after setup.
Approve Senders
Clicking “Add Sender” will 
add the sender of the email that you are currently reading to your Guest List. Adding to your Guest List ensures that that person can easily email you again.
Approve Domains
If you get a lot of 
email from a particular domain (example: your company or an organization that you belong to), you can quickly add the domain to your Guest List as well.
Protect multiple email addresses
One of the best things about Boxbe for Outlook is that you can protect any or all of the email addresses that you access via Microsoft Outlook. The Guest List that you create for one email address will work across all the email accounts that you choose for Boxbe to protect.
Get Boxbe for Outlook
You can get Boxbe for Outlook by signing up for Boxbe or adding an email address to your existing Boxbe account here.
System requirements:
Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2007
Windows Vista or Windows XP
We hope you like the new plugin but if you have any difficulty using Boxbe for Outlook or have any questions, email us support@boxbe.com.
Last night we had a service outage for our Boxbe for Yahoo! Mail service. After diagnosing the problem with the good folks down at Yahoo!, we have fixed the issues that caused the outage.