We have fixed a problem for users whose accounts are being enabled (and subsequently disabled again) receiving multiple notifications regarding the service going up and down.

If you have received numerous messages regarding the status of your account, you shouldn’t receive any more until we’ve resolved this issue.

Sorry for the delay in reactivating Boxbe for Yahoo! Mail, but rest assured we are tirelessly working on getting service working again.

We are actively working with Yahoo! to reinstate Boxbe for Yahoo! Mail for the affected users.

We’re terribly sorry for any inconvenience that this may be causing you, but rest assured we will have the service up and and running as soon as humanly possible.

We will keep you posted on the Boxbe Blog as we get to the bottom of this issue.

Here are some of the features we’ve just launched:

Always allow approved guests

Wondering why some messages from approved senders weren’t making it to your inbox? The new system allows messages from approved senders even if they fail authentication.

A simpler Guest List to make your life easier.

Auto Allow and Auto Block

Allow messages that have a low junk score to go directly to your inbox, and banish the ones with a high junk score from even showing up in your Waiting List. Save time – don’t worry about emails that are most and least likely to be good – Boxbe does the work for you.

Go to your threshold sliders now!

Universal Guest List

Use Boxbe’s convenient list of retailers, mailing lists, banks, social networks and other automated senders (no marketing or advertising emails, of course). It’s one more way Boxbe helps you save time.

Courtesy Notices are now optional

Many of you told us you don’t want to send Courtesy Notices to people not on your Guest List. They are now optional and they give you more control.

Choose who receives courtesy notices here.

Feedback?

Thanks for using Boxbe and we hope you like our new features. We love your feedback and we live on it. Please let us know what you think by responding to this email or emailing us at support@boxbe.com.

Boxbe for Yahoo! Mail is up and running. We’re sorry again for this inconvenience. We’ll post a further explanation later and measures that we are taking to avoid future outages.

Update 2: 1:37 PM May 6, 2008
After talking to Yahoo! Mail team further today, it appears that the large number of new people using Boxbe for their Yahoo! Mail may have been causing some trouble for a server on their end. We are actively making a change to how Boxbe for Yahoo! Mail works to better accommodate all of our new users.

Yahoo! assures us that making these changes will make for happier servers. Hopefully, we will have Boxbe for Yahoo! Mail up later this afternoon.

Update 1: 11:15 AM, May 6, 2008
We’ve talked to the good folks down at Yahoo! and we have figured out why Boxbe for Yahoo! Mail is down. We are actively working with Yahoo! to create a solution to this problem.

While I can’t give a time when we expect our Yahoo! Mail service to be up and running, we hope to have it working again really soon.

Thanks Ryan K for sending a direct tweet to me last night to help us out. We really appreciate it.

May 5, 2008
Earlier this evening, our Boxbe for Yahoo! Mail product experienced a service outage that we are still investigating.

You may have received an email earlier asking you to login to your Yahoo! Mail account as a result of this service outage. Unfortunately, logging into Yahoo! won’t fix this issue.

We’re terribly sorry for any inconvenience that this may be causing you, but rest assured we will have the service up and and running as soon as humanly possible.

We will keep you posted on the Boxbe Blog as we get to the bottom of this issue.

Boxbe Waiting List

No need to come to the Boxbe Web site to view messages on your Waiting List. 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.

This makes it easier to find messages from senders that you might want to add to your Guest List. Additionally, you can easily search messages in the Waiting List using Yahoo! Mail’s search tool.

Approve Guests within Yahoo! Mail

If you decide a message isn’t junk, clicking the “Approve” link from within the message in the Waiting 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.

Boxbe for Yahoo! Mail is easy to set up and it’s absolutely free.

(Not a Yahoo! Mail user? Boxbe works with Gmail and a plugin for Microsoft Outlook is currently in beta testing.)