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New and improved: Integrate Boxbe with your Gmail account

May 10th, 2007 by Randy Stewart, Product Manager

NOTE:Boxbe is discontinuing support for adding a Gmail account in this way.

Edited February 4, 2008

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We’ve just made integrating Boxbe with Gmail a heck of a lot simpler. I had planned to put a screen shot here, but it’s so easy, it seemed like a waste of bandwidth :-).

Starting today, we’ve enabled single click Gmail installation from your account home page. We’ve taken all the steps involved and reduced them to them to a few fields and a button.

Gmail integration is accessible directly here and is permanently accessible from your account home page.

What this does

We posted back in March about a method to set up Gmail to redirect email into Boxbe’s filter as well as setting up a signature to ensure redelivery of messages. The only thing we’ve changed is that we have automated the process for you.

Existing Members

If you are an existing member and you already use Gmail forwarding, you do not need to make any changes. We have automated the work you’ve already done.

If you were eager to see the changes we’ve made and already clicked the button, no worries. You will merely overwrite the changes you made previously, but the filter should still work.

Use Boxbe with Gmail

If you haven’t integrated Boxbe filtering for your Gmail account yet, we hope this makes it much easier.

Note to Gtalk users:
We’ve discovered a bug where Gtalk chats are not logged in your communications history. Existing conversations will not be affected. We hope to have this remedied soon.
[edited: Friday, May 11, 2007]

We have fixed the issue and we will push a fix out as soon as possible.
Monday, May 14, 2007

The issue has been resolved
Tuesday, May 15, 2007

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3 Responses to “New and improved: Integrate Boxbe with your Gmail account”

  1. Boxbe Blog » Blog Archive » Integrating Boxbe with Gmail Says:
    May 11th, 2007 at 9:42 am

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  2. Oliver Chadwick Says:
    May 11th, 2007 at 3:08 pm

    I set up the gmail filter before and have been using it for a while. One thing I noticed is that if you’re using gtalk and saving your chat history on gmail then the boxbe filter will delete your saved chats.

    I fixed this by just adding -”Chat with ” to the subject line in the filter setup. Not a permanent solution because this is something that could be abused by spammers in theory but it’s a good stop-gap.

    -Oliver.

  3. Randy Stewart, Product Manager Says:
    May 11th, 2007 at 3:51 pm

    Oliver,

    Thanks for pointing that out. Deleting chats isn’t really a desired behavior, sorry about that. We’ll look into it today.

    Cheers,
    Randy Stewart

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